excessive RAM usage?

[Sadus]

Hi,

I just finished my first simple Windows Form program written in Visual Basic .NET (using the .NET Framework 1.0)

My program surprised me by taking up about 14mbs of memory when I run it. I do use a number of objects that contain somewhat long strings but still...

As a test I created a brand new Windows Form project with just a blank form containing no controls or extra code. I ran this blank program and it takes up 12mb of RAM alone.

I just wanted to make sure it is normal for VB.NET programs to use so much RAM... I'd like to try to find out what is using so much memory if possible but I'm not sure which debugging tool (if any) would let me see exactly for what purpose all of that RAM is being used.

Thanks
Jeremy

 

[MDXer]

I just ran the same test and it took a little more than 10megs of ram on my machine. I'm not totally sure what causes it to use that much it may have something todo with the clr. You might want to post on one of the public microsoft groups and ask.

Paul

Paul