C# Image.Clone Out of Memory Exception

Question

Why am I getting an out of memory exception?

So this dies in C# on the first time through:

splitBitmaps.Add(neededImage.Clone(rectDimensions, neededI

Answer 1

Make sure that you're calling .Dispose() properly on your images, otherwise unmanaged resources won't be freed up. I wonder how many images are you actually creating here -- hundreds? Thousands?