How can I get reference count for a managed object?

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Question

.NET profilers can show reference count to managed objects. How do they count them?

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Solution

They use unmanaged APIs which provide access to the profiler.

ICorProfilerCallback and ICorProfilerCallback2 are the main ones. These are the the interfaces that .NET profilers use. There are some more references like this.

You can use the methods for class loads (ClassLoadFinished()) and unloads (ClassUnloadFinished()) to track this information.

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