Beautiful Hack: Using Mono's Profiler to find Hard Memory Leaks

Alan McGovern of MonoTorrent, Moonlight and Mono Introspect fame has written a blog post explaining how he used the new Mono Profiling interface to write a custom memory leak detector for Moonlight.His post is a step-by-step document on how he created a new loadable profiling module that the Mono runtime uses. He then registers for listening to profiling events for the GC roots (