How can I find out what items get generated in memory when debugging c#?

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Just curious, is it possible to find out, what items are generated while the program is running in stack and heap? Is there a tool or meachanism out there to identify memory usage in VS2010 C# (Silverlight)? Thanks,

I meant instantiated in memory. – Nair May 11 '11 at 18:58 — Nair, May 11 '11 at 18:58

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

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Yes, you can use the Visual Studio Profiler (or any other profiler).

Tutorial: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc337887.aspx

Other memory profilers:

http://memprofiler.com
http://www.red-gate.com/products/dotnet-development/ants-memory-profiler/
http://www.xteprofiler.com/ (supports Silverlight)

SO question: What Are Some Good .NET Profilers?

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answered May 11 '11 at 17:52

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 11 '11 at 17:50

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Its not built into Visual Studio, but you can use CLRProfiler to visualize allocations on the heap.

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 11 '11 at 17:55

Reference types are always allocated on the heap. I believe you can assume that value types are allocated on the stack. I don't know of any tools that will show your total stack usage, though.

You can use GC.GetTotalMemory() to determine your app's heap usage.

How can I find out what items get generated in memory when debugging c#?

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