[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: Investigating memory leaks - ABL memory profiler?

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Yes, that article sounds like exactly what we were running into. When we reported it to Infragistics, they claimed that there was no bug. Yes, references on either side of the bridge will keep an object alive. If all references go away, the object will be garbage collected. In all the cases I've looked at, there were no references left from the ABL side. If I had found one, the bug has already been fixed. And you're correct, if there are still references on the .NET side, it's possibly tough to make the object go away. But I did find that calling Dispose() and doing DELETE OBJECT on the form was usually enough. We did make a change in 11.7.2 such that we will internally call Dispose() on the form once it is closed if the ABL has not done so. So DELETE OBJECT would be enough. Did you actually try just that?

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