If one has a reference to a COM object such as pComObj, calling Release() on it will likely decrement its reference count by one ( 1 ). Asumming the actual reference count on it is 5 and was just decremented to 4 as described above, what then does this do...
Set pComObj=Nothing
Does that then cause the reference count to decrement to zero followed shortly by automatic object unloading? Or does it just cause a memory leak?
It just calls the Release method.
Ahh! That's an interesting bit of information. Thanks!