Memory management in NativeScript for Android

Note: This post will be a bit different from the previous ones. It’s intended to provide brief history as to why current NativeScript for Android implementation is designed this way. So, this post will be most useful for my Telerik ex-colleagues. Think of it as kind of historic documentation. Also, it is a chance to …

CLR Profilers and Windows Store apps

Last month Microsoft published a white paper about profiling Windows Store apps. The paper is very detailed and provides rich information how to build CLR profiler for Windows Store apps. I was very curious to read it because at the time when we released JustTrace Q3 2012 there was no documentation. After all, I was …

Garbage collection – part 1 of N

Recently I deal a lot with memory problems like leaks, stack/heap corruption, heap fragmentation, buffer overflow and the like. Surprisingly these things happen in the .NET world, especially when one deals with COM/PInvoke interoperability. The CLR comes with a garbage collector (GC) which is a great thing. The GC has been around for many years …