Create memory dump file

The Task Manager of MS Windows allows you to dump the memory of each running application into a file. Here, we want to get the memory dump Notepad++ application.

The DMP file will be created at C:\Users\YOUR_USER\AppData\Local\Temp\notepad++.DMP.

Open DMP

Open notepad++.DMP with Microsoft Visual Studio. Then, run Debug Managed Memory.

Object size

It will show you all the object counts and their total memory size used.

Objects that keep increasing their memory size are potential memory leak.