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Deterministic Unloading of COM components from .NET applications
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Andrew Baker
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Date:
Tuesday, November 19, 2002
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Visual Basic General
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It is recommended that you do not use the garbage collector to force you COM components to unload, as this will not always work and does not provide a scalable solution (as it affects every .NET assembly running on the machine). Instead use the following to decrement the COM reference counter and hence unload the object: 'Will loop until the reference counter on the variable myComObject is zero Do Loop While System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject(myComObject) 'Returns a count of references
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