Programming Microsoft® Visual C#® 2008: The Language

The GC Class

The GC class publishes services to interface with the garbage collector. You can manipulate and monitor garbage collection with the GC class. While some of the commands provide status information, other GC commands affect the default behavior of garbage collection. Table 17-2 lists the static members of the GC class.

Table 17-2. GC class static members

Member name	Description
MaxGeneration	This property is an integer property and returns the maximum number of generations.
AddMemoryPressure	This method recognizes memory allocations for unmanaged resources.
Collect	This method forces garbage collection on a specific generation. There are two overloads of the method. The no-argument Collect does garbage collection on all generations. The one-argument ...