Your problem. Not possible.
(a) the objects do not KNOW how many string references thre are. The Garbage collector of the :NET Framework does not work with reference counting, so this data can not be available. The algorythm used is a mark and sweep type - you are out of luck here. You will HAVE to use weak references for your collection. Thats the way it is designed. Thomas Tomiczek THONA Consulting Ltd. (Microsoft MVP C#/.NET) -----Original Message----- From: Christian Schmitz [mailto:csh@;GEDAS.DE] Sent: Donnerstag, 17. Oktober 2002 15:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] count strong references hi, i would like to count the strong references to an object. in my framework there is one collection which holds strong references to objects. i would like to remove those objects which have no foreign strong references. that means when i remove these objects they are garbage collected by the dotnet framework. i dont want to extend the objects with special functionalities to provide this information. thanks for your help! Christian You can read messages from the Advanced DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from Advanced DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the Advanced DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from Advanced DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
