Garbage Collection should have removed object but WeakReference.IsAlive still returning true

Question

I have a test that I expected to pass but the behavior of the Garbage Collector is not as I presumed:

[Test]
public void WeakReferenceTest2()
{
    var obj =         


        

Answer 1

Could it be that the .Should() extension method is somehow hanging on to a reference? Or perhaps some other aspect of the test framework is causing this issue.

(I'm posting this as an answer otherwise I can't easily post the code!)

I have tried the following code, and it works as expected (Visual Studio 2012, .Net 4 build, debug and release, 32 bit and 64 bit, running on Windows 7, quad core processor):

using System;

namespace Demo
{
    internal class Program
    {
        private static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var obj = new object();
            var wRef = new WeakReference(obj);

            GC.Collect();
            obj = null;
            GC.Collect();

            Console.WriteLine(wRef.IsAlive); // Prints false.
            Console.ReadKey();
        }
    }
}

What happens when you try this code?