C# Increase Heap Size - Is It Possible

Question

I have an out of memory exception using C# when reading in a massive file

I need to change the code but for the time being can I increase the heap size (like I would

Answer 1

What sort of file are you dealing with ?

You might be better off using a StreamReader and yield returning the ReadLine result, if it's textual.

Sure, you'll be keeping a file-pointer around, but the worst case scenario is massively reduced.

There are similar methods for Binary files, if you're uploading a file to SQL for example, you can read a byte[] and use the Sql Pointer mechanics to write the buffer to the end of a blob.