My previous post looked at the limitations of the .NET Garbage Collection process. The right way to mitigate these limitations is by allowing an objects owner to call Dispose() to release resources on demand rather than having to wait for the Finalization Queue to run. In this post I will grow a worked example that […]
In .NET, running applications store their state (data) in a heap (specifically objects <85k on the Small Object Heap (SOH) while larger objects are usually written to the Large Object Heap). When those objects are no longer required by the application, they need to be removed to make space for new objects. .NET deals with […]
I needed to have all of the text selected when a user clicked on a text box so it would be easy to overwrite the contents without having to hit Ctrl-A. The problem was that I just couldn’t get this code working: private void myTextbox_Enter(object sender, EventArgs e) { selectedFolderPath.SelectAll(); } I could call .SelectAll() […]