In WPF: Children.Remove or Children.Clear doesn't free objects
- by Bart Roozendaal
I create some UIElements from code behind and was anticipating the garbage collection to clear up stuff. However, the objects are not free-ed at the time I expected it. I was expecting them to be freeed at RemoveAt(0), but they are only freed at the end of the program.
How can I make the objects be freed when removed from the Children collection of the Canvas?
<Window x:Class="WpfApplication1.MainWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="Window1" Height="300" Width="300"
MouseDown="Window_MouseDown">
<Grid>
<Canvas x:Name="main" />
</Grid>
</Window>
The code behind is:
public partial class MainWindow : Window
{
public MainWindow()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void Window_MouseDown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
{
if (main.Children.Count == 0)
main.Children.Add(new MyControl() { Background = Brushes.Yellow, Width = 100, Height = 50 });
else
main.Children.RemoveAt(0);
}
}
public class MyControl : UserControl
{
~MyControl()
{
Debug.WriteLine("Goodbye");
}
}
