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Memory Leak Analysis for .Net application

Memory leaks in .Net applications are always proven to be the nightmare for developers. Many times we get “OutOfMemoryException”, which is nothing but due to memory leak only. There are many reasons, which lead to memory leak situation. For example, sometimes we forget to release unmanaged resources, dispose heavy objects (i.e., drawing objects), even holding reference of managed objects, longer than necessary can also lead to memory leaks. So, if the application is small, one can analyze the code and figure it out, which object is causing memory leak. But when it comes to a large application, it is not at all possible to figure out manually. In that case, we need some tool, which can help us to figure out the area or object, which is causing memory leak. So, today I surf internet and came up with a tool called .Net Memory Profiler, which can do analysis for us and give us the statistics of all the instances. Ok, instead of getting more into theory, let’s jump quickly to the