I have referenced it in my VB .Net (2003) project... The first time I call
it works, but on the second and up, it fails to come back to my code (I have
to click stop)

It is as if .Net never really frees the Component (Which needs to be done..)

What am I missing?

Adam Southerland

Notes:
I have tried adding
imports System.EnterpriseServices

wrapped around the COM+ instance I have...

Dim Config as new ServiceConfig
ServiceDomain.Enter(config)
Dim onjCOMOBJ as COMOBJ.CLS = New COMOBJ.CLS
Dim myStr as string = objCOMOBJ.Function
ContextUtil.SetComplete()
ServiceDomain.Leave()

Before I added the imports and Service stuff it did the same thing - i'm
flying blind =(

The RCW for the COM object will not decrement the reference count on the COM
component (and thus destroy the object) until it is Garbage Collected.

You can force the reference count to 0 with
system.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject.

So the VB6 code:

function getStuff() as string
 Dim objCOMOBJ as COMOBJ.CLS
 set objCOMOBJ = New COMOBJ.CLS
 getStuff = objCOMOBJ.Function
 set objCOMOBJ = nothing
end sub

is most closely translated by

the VB7 code:

function getStuff() as string
 Dim objCOMOBJ as New COMOBJ.CLS
 try
  return objCOMOBJ.Function()
 finally
   system.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject(objCOMOBJ)
 end try
end sub

.

David