Why does a System.Timers.Timer survive GC but not System.Threading.Timer?

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You can answer this and similar questions with windbg, sos, and !gcroot

0:008> !gcroot -nostacks 0000000002354160
DOMAIN(00000000002FE6A0):HANDLE(Strong):241320:Root:00000000023541a8(System.Thre
ading._TimerCallback)->
00000000023540c8(System.Threading.TimerCallback)->
0000000002354050(System.Timers.Timer)->
0000000002354160(System.Threading.Timer)
0:008>

In both cases, the native timer has to prevent GC of the callback object (via a GCHandle). The difference is that in the case of System.Timers.Timer the callback references the System.Timers.Timer object (which is implemented internally using a System.Threading.Timer)

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