One of the biggest memory-related problems and I daresay all-round problems in .NET, are memory leaks. They are very common, hard to notice, and eventually lead to devastating consequences. These include out-of-memory crashes, high memory consumption, performance issues, and unnecessary “live” objects that keep executing code. The main tool to detect and fix memory leaks is a Memory Profiler. In fact, I believe the most common usage of memory profilers in .