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Hi everybody,

I made an application which automates MapPoint. Here I made permanent distance calculations between two locations.

When I have a look in the taskmanager MapPoint starts with 40MB and
ends after one day with 250MB and then crashes (I guess because of memory problems).

Is it right that MapPoint never releases memory for distance calculation ?
Has anyone similar experiences ?

Regards
Rainer

I had that same problem a few days ago. You need to release the application object to the garbage collection. Try myApp.Quit(). This function will cause the "Save Map" dialog to appear as soon as the map is loaded. The way that I got around this was by using the actual MapPoint Control.

I had similar experience with MapPoint 2002 when doing distance calculations in bulk. In fact, my PC will just stop after all the memory gets used up by the application. I ended up writing another application that executes it and controls the memory usage. As it sees the system running out of memory, it kills the process and starts it over again.

Map Point 2004 does not seem to have this problem anymore...