.NET Memory Management and Garbage Collection

Clive Tong (from Red Gate) has an excellent post on The Top 5 .NET Memory Management Misconceptions, which does a great job of explaining how the .NET garbage collector works.

Now those Performance Counters listed under ".NET CLR Memory" (and debugging .NET memory issues in general) make more sense.

There's also a nice post by Ian Nicolade on High-End Performance Optimizations on the XBox 360 and Windows Phone 7 which explains some common ways to keep from generating huge amounts of garbage in apps that use potentially never-ending loops (such as games).