Understanding Object Lifetime

Abstract

In the previous chapter, you learned a great deal about how to build custom class types using C#. Here, you will come to understand how the CLR is managing allocated objects via garbage collection. C# programmers never directly deallocate a managed object from memory (recall there is no “delete” keyword in the C# language). Rather, .NET objects are allocated onto a region of memory termed the managed heap, where they will be automatically destroyed by the garbage collector at “some time in the future.”