Because C# is garbage-collected, I don't need to worry about cleaning anything up. Not. If you've ever wondered why your C# application is so bloated, this post is for you. The garbage collector in .NET ensures that you don't have to worry about freeing managed memory that you allocated....
.NET has a WeakReference class, whose semantics appear to have been borrowed from Java. As nearly as I can tell, they're both useless. A WeakReference is an object that holds a reference to another object. However, it holds a special type of reference, that doesn't prevent the target from being...