Unregistered event handlers cause memory leak

Question

I\'m maintaining a web application that has a memory leak.

Based on my investigation using Red Gate ANTS memory profiler I\'m pretty sure that the memory leak is cau

Answer 1

The Dispose method on the collection should be called directly by your code because the event holds a reference to the collection. Your collection will never be destroyed by garbage collector.

You should also change the behaviour of the Remove and Clean methods of the collection to detach the event handler from the removed items.