"Nishith Prabhakar" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am facing some memory leak problems with COM interop cleanup. Will
> the following code cause any memory leaks because of the
> wrapper.methodCall method (part of the exposed COM interface).
>
> 1) Is the refcount incremented when the methodCall is made?
> 2) If yes, where is the refcount - in "wrapper" or in "otherWrapper"
> 3) How should the reference created by the methodCall( ) be
> decremented?
>
> Regards
> Nishith
>
> MyFirstComRCWWrapper wrapper = new MyFirstComRCWWrapper();
>
> MyOtherRCWWrapper otherWrapper = new MyOtherRCWWrapper();
>
> int result = wrapper.methodCall(otherWrapper); // Will this cause a
> memory leak?
>
> Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject(otherWrapper);
> otherWrapper = null;
>
> // Release on other wrapper
> Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject(wrapper);
> wrapper = null;