How to delete multidimesional array in Visual C++ .Net 2008?

[Abhijitit]

Hello,

I have Class name as MyClass and created multidimesional array of object.
Example is given below.

// clr_array.cpp
// compile with: /clr
ref class MyClass {};
int main() {
array<MyClass ^> ^ MyArray = gcnew array<MyClass ^>(100);
}


I have problem, how to delete this array of objects.?

[JosAH]

Is this C++ or some MS-ism?

kind regards,

Jos

[oler1s]

It's C++/CLI, the modified version of C++ for the .NET platform. Good luck getting good help for it.

Do you need to delete the array of objects? I imagine they get garbage collected.

[vmpstr]

This is MS-ism. Apparently, ^ is to signify a handle, which acts basically like a pointer, but is garbage collected (hence gcnew instead of new: gc stands for garbage collected).

Given that it is garbage collected, it will be deleted for you once there are no more preferences to that address... hopefully.

[Banfa]

If you really feel the need to you can use delete to delete objects allocated with gcnew. However as has already been pointed out gcnew returns a handle that the garbage collect monitors and when there are not more references to that handle the data is automatically deleted (garbage collected).