Runtime Facilities

The FCL provides classes that can control runtime behavior. The canonical examples are the classes that control the garbage collector and those that provide strong and weak reference support.

For more information, see the following namespace:

System

An important related type in another namespace is System.Runtime. InteropServices.GCHandle.

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