Garbage collection fails to reclaim BitmapImage?

Question

I have an application(WPF) which creates BitmapImages in huge numbers(like 25000). Seems like framework uses some internal logic so after creation there are approx 300 mb of

Answer 1

This is still an array

BitmapImage[] bimages = new BitmapImage[size];

Arrays are continuous fixed-length data structures, once memory allocated for the whole array you cannot reclaim parts of it. Try using another data structures (like LinkedList) or other more appropriate in your case