Hi,

According to what I heard (and please correct me if I'm wrong) a regular .Net application have 2 Giga of dynamic memory for usage during its execution (at most).

Does VS2005\VS2008 Add-in applicatoins have the ability to use this amount of dynamic memory as well, or do they have a lower limit of dynamic memory for their usage?

Does the answer is the same for all operating systems (XP, Vista, etc.) and .Net Frameworks?

Regards

Hi, Trinominal
In theory in 32bit system, the most memory for an application is 4G(2³²), but some other things(like OS) will occupy some memory, so actuall the memory space for an application is about 2G more. But it is limited to 2G(You can use more than 2G by changing the swtich to 3G in boot.ini file).
For the addin is in within the process boudaries in the visual studio process(devenv.exe),  so I think its dynamic memory depend on by the memory limitation of devenv process.
But for the 64bit sytem, the application has much more memory space, for it has 2⁶⁴ virtual memory size in theory.

Hope this could help!

Thanks

Chao

Hello,

See my post:

The strange case of Visual Studio getting "out of memory"
http://msmvps.com/blogs/carlosq/archive/2009/06/09/the-strange-case-of-visual-studio-getting-quot-out-of-memory-quot.aspx

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MZ-Tools: Productivity add-ins for Visual Studio: http://www.mztools.com. My blog about VS extensibility: http://msmvps.com/blogs/carlosq/

Hi, Trinominal
In theory in 32bit system, the most memory for an application is 4G(2³²), but some other things(like OS) will occupy some memory, so actuall the memory space for an application is about 2G more. But it is limited to 2G(You can use more than 2G by changing the swtich to 3G in boot.ini file).
For the addin is in within the process boudaries in the visual studio process(devenv.exe),  so I think its dynamic memory depend on by the memory limitation of devenv process.
But for the 64bit sytem, the application has much more memory space, for it has 2⁶⁴ virtual memory size in theory.

Hope this could help!

Thanks

Chao

Hello,

See my post:

The strange case of Visual Studio getting "out of memory"
http://msmvps.com/blogs/carlosq/archive/2009/06/09/the-strange-case-of-visual-studio-getting-quot-out-of-memory-quot.aspx

---

MZ-Tools: Productivity add-ins for Visual Studio: http://www.mztools.com. My blog about VS extensibility: http://msmvps.com/blogs/carlosq/