profiling

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 →