https://www.zerosharp.com/blog/categories/asp.net/Recent content in Asp.net on ZeroSharpHugoen-gbCopyright © 2012–{year} Robert AndersonWed, 05 Aug 2015 09:26:00 +0100https://www.zerosharp.com/force-a-complete-garbage-collection-in-an-asp-dot-net-application/Wed, 05 Aug 2015 09:26:00 +0100https://www.zerosharp.com/force-a-complete-garbage-collection-in-an-asp-dot-net-application/<p>How can I force a full garbage collection easily within an ASP.NET application? The method here is for XAF web applications but the same approach should work with any ASP.NET app.</p> <p>First up: Never mess with the .NET garbage collector.</p> <p>I sometimes mess with the garbage collector in .NET when I&rsquo;m trying to pin down some memory problem. Also, after <a href="https://www.zerosharp.com/load-testing-xaf-part-1-deploying/">a load test</a>, I prefer to force the garbage collector to collect everything it can so that I can check that the memory drops as expected.</p>