How to release the VM / private bytes of a Desktop application in c#

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Published on 2010-05-20T06:56:25Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 7:00 UTC
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Hi,

I have desktop application developed in C#. The VM Size used by application is very high. Is there a solution to release / decrease the VM size programatically in C#

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