Is it true that in .NET the garbage collector gets called when you minimize the program?

This has nothing to do with garbage collection - this happens with non . NET programs too (try minimizing your browser while looking at the memory footprint for it).

The garbage collector runs whenever it decides to run; this is not necessarily tied to anything the user does, and certainly not minimizing the application. Generally, you can think of it as a function of the amount of memory usage compared to the total amount of free memory. But the point is, this is supposed to be somewhat opaque to you as a programmer.

The big benefit of garbage collection over manually memory management is that you shouldn't have to worry about any of this.

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