James,

If the COM object has some stuff it could clear up pre-destruction you can setup a method to do this, but you aren't guaranteed that it would be called, so it's just as well to let the Destroy() method do all of the clean up and let the act of the client doing oWidget = .null. make the object go away.

>Just wondering if anyone can give me a tip on exit or releasing a COM object a little more elegantly than oWidget = .Null.?
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>Perhaps something like oWidget.Release()... but what to put in the Release() method to have the object unload itself.