Chapter 4, Memory Management

1. Three: generation 0, generation 1, and generation 2.
2. Objects less than 80,000 bytes are placed on the SOH.
3. Objects 80,000 bytes or more are placed on the LOH.
4. A strong reference is a reference that does not get garbage-collected.
5. A weak reference is a reference that does get garbage-collected.
6. Implement the IDisposable pattern.
7. Unsubscribe event listeners when they are no longer used. Dispose of event publishers or set them to null when they are no longer used.
8. Marshal.ReleaseComObject(object).
9. Make sure that any allocated memory is deallocated. Use the IDisposable pattern to ensure that memory is cleaned up when the object is disposed of.