I actually work at Fog Creek for Joel; I just happened to pick an absolutely horrid way to phrase what I was trying to convey. (I edited the original post to c

I actually work at Fog Creek for Joel; I just happened to pick an absolutely horrid way to phrase what I was trying to convey. (I edited the original post to clarify.) The memory management is the part of COM that leaks through the abstraction layer in my experience, but it has usually leaked through in MS's attempt to actually properly jacket the things in full-blown .NET objects. I've otherwise not had issues. I have a hunch I'd also complain about the remote proxying if I used DCOM from .NET, but I haven't.