Where does the destructor code for things I have defined in an ATL COM object belong?
Should it go in ~MyComClass() or in MyComClass::FinalRelease()?
Where does the destructor code for things I have defined in an ATL COM
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Where does the destructor code for things I have defined in an ATL COM object belong?
Should it go in ~MyComClass() or in MyComClass::FinalRelease()?
As long as
FinalReleaseis in question, I assume your question is related to ATL.In most cases you can clean things up in either of the two.
FinalReleasewill be called immediately before the actual destructor. The important difference is that if you aggregate other objects, FinalRelease gives you a chance to clean the references and release dependencies before actual destructor of top level COM object class (esp.CComObject) starts working.That is, you clean things up in two steps, first references to aggregated objects in
FinalReleaseand then other things in eitherFinalReleaseor destructor.