C# Memory Tricks: Learn How To Master The Garbage Collector

This course teaches you advanced C# memory management tricks that every professional .NET developer must know.

Created by: Mark Farragher
Microsoft Certified Trainer

What Will I Learn?

• Learn how the Garbage Collector works
• Master .NET memory optimization
• Discover the truth about finalizers
• Learn how to measure the memory footprint of your code
• The unexpected memory footprint of List resizing
• Structs versus classes - which one is better?
• What assumptions does the GC make about object size and lifetime?
• Manual deallocation with the Dispose pattern
• ... and much more!

Requirements

• You need a Windows, Mac or Linux laptop with Microsoft Visual Studio, Xamarin Studio or Monodevelop
• You should be a beginner, intermediate, or advanced C# developer
• That's it!

Target audience

• Beginner, intermediate, and advanced C# programmers who want to learn how to master the garbage collector.
• Developers who are about to take a job interview and need to prepare for questions about memory allocation in .NET
• Professionals who are writing a section of mission-critical code in a large C# project