Streaming Data Sucks Up Memory

[bordsby]

VB.NET, Windows XP Pro

I am writing an application that streams financial numbers from
Bloomberg, and basically every time Bloomberg's API raises an event in
my application I receive all of the data in one object, process it, and
then wait for the next object containing data.

My application is continually using memory until the available physical
memory shown on the Performance tab in the task manager goes to zero,
and then everything freezes. The only thing I have tried is to make
sure that I am setting all objects = Nothing inside the event handler
and any other Subroutines that are continuously called, and that has
not worked.

Has anyone else experienced this problem with an external API raising
events in your application? Any ideas what might cause this?

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Bordsby,

Setting an object to nothing does mostly (often) nothing.

An object is released as it has no references anymore to something and
nothing is referencing it anymore.

I hope this helps,

Cor