Clearing out result from WebClient

Question

I have the follow code section for a web client:

var client = new WebClient();
client.DownloadProgressChanged += (sender, args) => 
client_DownloadProgressChanged(sender, args, this.Context.ConnectionId);
client.DownloadDataCompleted += (sender, evt) =>
{
    byte[] result = evt.Result;
    aLongRunningTask(result);**
}

My problem is that the "aLongRunningTask" function needs to be initiated upon the completion of the downloaddata method, which is working fine, but since the file I receive is very large, I end up having a string in memory taking up a lot of memory space, that there is no need for since I only need byte[].

evt.Result is sadly a readonly property so I can not empty it, and I can not null the client, since I am running the aLongRunningTask.

Is there any way to either overwrite the evt.Result so it can be cleaned, or another way to get that memory usage emptied.

Answer 1

How about using using like this

using(var client = new WebClient()){

//your logic

}