In the February issue of .NET Developers Journal, I described how implicit operations such as the boxing of value types can dramatically increase the amount of memory your .NET Compact Framework application uses. At the time, the tools available to help you get a picture of how your application uses memory were very limited. While version 2 of the Compact Framework did report performance statistics, it did so only when your application closed. The static nature of these counters made it very hard to locate memory usage trends in your application.