Hi all,

it seems for me that in Java world there is much freedom
in controlling the garbage collector than in .NET: JDK
includes SoftReference and WeakReference classes,
while .NET supports only WeakReferences. Is there any way
to simulate soft references in .NET? Or why they are
missed?

I'm not a guru in .NET garbage collector, and I have a
problem: in my Java application there is a cache based on
soft references, and all works fine. When I ported the
application to the .NET, the cache becomes using weak
references, and it's behavior is now far from good: weak
references die too often, so the application needs to
rebuild cached object which is time-consuming procedure.

Thanks in advance,
Dmitry