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Memory leak with BitmapImage

2013-02-17
By: Kevin Gosse
On: February 17, 2013
Tagged: .NET, C#, Memory, profiling, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone 8, wpdev

There’s a memory leak that has been bothering me for a while in my Imageboard Browser app. The scenario is simple: a slideshow feature, where a new picture is loaded from an url every few seconds. After a while, the app crashes with an OutOfMemory exception. I’ve never been able to find the source of the leak, so I settled for a dirty workaround consisting in loading a fake picture in the BitmapImage instance to force it to release the memory: It fixed the issue, but I didn’t dig much further. However, over the last few weeks I’ve seen many similar leaks reported on StackOverflow,Read More →

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