Solved: C# Winforms Datarepeater issues.

I have a winform with a datarepeater that contains quite a few controls. The problem I'm having is that after it refreshes a few times it crashes. I used Process Explorer and saw that when USER OBJECTS reaches 10,000 for my application is when it locks up.

I think that this issue is because I have to rebind the controls over and over to refresh the data and not disposing them properly, but I'm not sure exactly how to do that. Could anyone help me with a way to make this work? Here is the code I have so far:

private void PopulateDataRepeater()
        {    
            //foreach(Control ctrl in dataRepeater1.Controls)
            //{
            //    ctrl.Dispose();  <<<<<<  THIS WAY OF DISPOSING DOES NOT WORK.
            //}
            try
            {
                Invoke((MethodInvoker)delegate
                {
                    dataRepeater1.BeginResetItemTemplate();

                    lblExtruder.DataBindings.Clear();
                    lblOldItem.DataBindings.Clear();
                    lblStatus.DataBindings.Clear();
                    lblAmps.DataBindings.Clear();
                    lblThermocoupler.DataBindings.Clear();
                    lblVibrationTemp.DataBindings.Clear();
                    lblDurationHrs.DataBindings.Clear();
                    lblBattery.DataBindings.Clear();
                    lblLastReading.DataBindings.Clear();
                    progressBarAmps.DataBindings.Clear();
                    progressBarThermocoupler.DataBindings.Clear();
                    progressBarVibrationTemp.DataBindings.Clear();

                    vw_sensors_current_statusTableAdapter.Fill(sensorsDataSet.vw_sensors_current_status);
                    dt.Clear();
                    dt = vw_sensors_current_statusTableAdapter.GetData();
                    
                    lblExtruder.DataBindings.Add(new Binding("Text", dt, "MachineID", true));
                    lblOldItem.DataBindings.Add(new Binding("Text", dt, "TopOfSched", true));
                    lblStatus.DataBindings.Add(new Binding("Text", dt, "ExtruderStatus", true));                    
                    lblAmps.DataBindings.Add(new Binding("Text", dt, "amps", true));
                    lblThermocoupler.DataBindings.Add(new Binding("Text", dt, "thermocoupler_temperature", true));
                    lblVibrationTemp.DataBindings.Add(new Binding("Text", dt, "vibration_temperature", true));
                    lblDurationHrs.DataBindings.Add(new Binding("Text", dt, "HrsDuration", true));
                    lblBattery.DataBindings.Add(new Binding("Text", dt, "BatteryStatus", true));
                    lblLastReading.DataBindings.Add(new Binding("Text", dt, "LastReading", true));
                    progressBarAmps.DataBindings.Add(new Binding("Value", dt, "amps", true));
                    progressBarThermocoupler.DataBindings.Add(new Binding("Value", dt, "thermocoupler_temperature", true));
                    progressBarVibrationTemp.DataBindings.Add(new Binding("Value", dt, "vibration_temperature", true));
                    
                    dataRepeater1.EndResetItemTemplate();

                    dataRepeater1.DataSource = dt;
                    dataRepeater1.Update();
                    dataRepeater1.Refresh();
                    //GC.Collect(0);
                    //Console.WriteLine("Garbage Collection in Generation 0 is: "
                    //                                  + GC.CollectionCount(0));  <<<<<THIS DOES NOT WORK EITHER
                });                              
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("{0} Exception caught.", e);
            }
            finally
            {
                // *****Adding Finally block does not change anything.
            }
        }

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Thank you!