Measuring memory cunsumption

When using any object oriented programming language you sooner or later start using your own objects. But when creating your own class - more complex class that uses a lot of other objects, it may be a good idea to know how much memory your object cunsumes - You may want to maintain thousands of your objects in some collection for some time and it costs some memory..

A good way to get to know how much memory your object eats is using GetTotalMemory() method in System.GC.

long memoryStart = System.GC.GetTotalMemory(true);

// Generate some of your objects
ICollection<myobject> myObjects = List<myobject>();
for (int i = 0; i < 10000; i++)
{
  myObjects.Add(new MyObject);
}

long memoryEnd = System.GC.GetTotalMemory(true);

MessageBox.Show((memoryEnd - memoryStart).ToString());

That gives you how much memory consume 10 000 objects of your class. Divide it by 10 000 and it's the memory consumption of one object.