Not quite!, VFP does have some garbage collection be it can't do everything. you must be extremly carefull at cleaning up when building COM servers.
Take a look at
http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~ManualGarbageCollection~VFP>A VFP COM will clean up by itself when it quit. VFP does all the plumbing behind the scene. My comments was aimed for a COM written in another tool, like C++.
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