> I'll probably spin up the runtime before using the library, and shut it down after I'm done using it. Hopefully the library did not leave any background task

> I'll probably spin up the runtime before using the library, and shut it down after I'm done using it. Hopefully the library did not leave any background tasks running that you can't ask it to stop :) Raymond Chen has a lot of enlightening horror stories about multi-threaded COM (and multi-threaded programming in general) on his blog that are applicable not only to Windows, but in general context as well.