Garbage Collector

This module introduces the user to code reflection and information, what this means and how to get data and create instances. It will provide an overview of garbage collection and how it works as an automatic memory management. [04:42] - How to get Type data [11:30] - Reflection demo [21:42] -…

There have been a lot of positive reviews of the upcoming Windows Phone 7 OS release, code named "Mango." This release is a big one. It contains over 500 new features (and over 1000 new APIs), is full of improvements - from the core OS to the performance of UI…

Maoni Stephens is a software developer who spends her time implementing .NET's GC. In fact, she's been working on the GC since the early days of .NET. Andrew Pardoe is the GC PM. The last time we focused on GC on C9 was a conversation with GC creator Patrick Dussud. In that…

Where do objects go when they aren't used anymore (and how to know that they are no longer useful to the executing code that created them)? Might seem like a silly question to most developers, but that's what Technical Fellow Patrick Dussud has been dealing with for most of his career.…

I finally got a chance to sit down and talk to Patrick Dussud, one of the CLR founders and chief architect of the .NET Garbage Collector, or GC, as developers call it. I wanted to learn about what a GC is, how it works, why it does what it does, how it will evolve, Patrick's history in the…