>>>You should get to the reason the memory usage increases then figure out how to resolve the issue.
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>>Yes, but this is very difficult to find. That is why the first step was to implement the Using approach where it applies. This seems to be related to the implementation of SOAP SVC. I have it at one location in the framework and the application using it seems to obtain a side effect from it. So, in the application, I have added the Using approach on the initialization of the SOAP SVC service and so far the memory stands straight.
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>Maybe you can wrap the "unmanaged" class you want to be USING into a class that does implement iDisposable. That's what I did with Excel, and it works reasonably well.
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>Please have a look at how I "iDisposable"d my wrapped excel class.
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>I'm using the Using construct with it, and it does dispose of the object once it goes out of scope. (I.e. excel does not remain in the task list). It's what you are supposed to do when you don't want to wait for the garbage collector to get rid of the "unmanged" classes.
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>Don't ask me how it works.... I have no clue.

Pretty complete explanation here : http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/15360/Implementing-IDisposable-and-the-Dispose-Pattern-P


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>Imports Microsoft.Office.Interop
>Public Class fwExcel
>    Implements IDisposable
>    Public oApp As New Excel.Application
>    Public oWBs As Excel.Workbooks
>    Public oWB As Excel.Workbook
>
>    Dim thisThread As System.Threading.Thread
>    Dim lQuit As Boolean = True
>    Dim lDisposed As Boolean = False
>
>    Sub New()
>        Me.thisThread = System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread
>        Me.originalCulture = thisThread.CurrentCulture
>        Me.thisThread.CurrentCulture = New System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US")
>        Me.oWBs = Me.oApp.Workbooks
>        Me.oApp.DisplayAlerts = False
>    End Sub
>    Sub Dispose() Implements IDisposable.Dispose
>        If Me.lDisposed Then Exit Sub
>        If lQuit Then Me.oApp.Quit()
>        Me.releaseObject(Me.oWB)
>        Me.releaseObject(Me.oWBs)
>        Me.releaseObject(Me.oApp)
>        Me.thisThread.CurrentCulture = Me.originalCulture
>        Me.lDisposed = True
>    End Sub
>    Protected Overrides Sub finalize()
>        Me.Dispose()
>    End Sub
>    Public Sub releaseObject(ByVal o As Object)
>        If o Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
>        Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject(o)
>        o = Nothing
>    End Sub
>