C# .NET Web Developer`s Guide P2

Introducing the Microsoft .NET Platform in use, these objects will always have a reference count greater than zero, so unless they are implicitly deconstructed, their memory may never be recovered. For a C or C++ programmer—accustomed to ensuring that objects are properly destroyed, essentially managing memory on their own—this sounds perfectly normal, and a good reason for not trusting anyone else to take care of managing resources. However, in the .NET environment, Microsoft is striving to make developing software easier. Later in this chapter, we cover a how .NET garbage collection works, and the improvements that have been made over...