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Can I force collection for objects of certain type only?

I have a problem with RCWs not being timely collected. I think of periodically force-starting garbage collection from inside code. However I'm not sure if that will have some undesired slowdown.

I'm not actually interested in collecting all objects, I only need RCWs collected and they all have System.__ComObject type. I guess that collecting only them would be faster.

Is it possible to force garbage collection for objects of certain type only?

Solution

  • No, It's not possible, you can only force a garbage collector to run but you can not force it to work according to your logic.

    For more information on garbage collector please read this: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee787088(v=vs.110).aspx

    Also GC is a static class, we can't override any of it's method :(