Visual Studio 2013 comes with a better memory profiler for .NET applications, but it is still far behind the other commercial offerings.

It's hard to create memory leaks in .NET, but I can do it when developing in SharePoint without even trying very hard. The SharePoint Dispose Check (SPDisposeCheck to its friends) analyzes your code ...

Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 includes a new JavaScript Memory Analyzer for Windows 8 which identifies potential memory leaks to enable developers to fix their apps before submission to Windows Store.

Take advantage of Microsoft.IO.RecyclableMemoryStream to eliminate LOH allocations and avoid memory fragmentation and memory leaks in your .NET Core applications.