How to get an object garbage collected

Sometimes it's useful to detect when an object is garbage collected. Garbage collection happens in a separate thread, and if you want to display some info about this, in a Windows Forms GUI, you need to use BeginInvoke and not Invoke or your application will "freeze". Invoke will not be executed during garbage collection. #if DEBUG private static long objectsDestroyedCounter = 0; ~Entity( ) { objectsDestroyedCounter++; if( (objectsDestroyedCounter % 10000) == 0) { LogDebug(string.Format("{0} objects dropped." ,objectsDestroyedCounter) ); } } private static void LogDebug(string s) { MainForm.LogString(s); }