Does WinRT have Garbage Collection?
Or does it do reference counting as does COM?
Does WinRT have Garbage Collection?
Or does it do reference counting as does COM?
I found this article, which cites Microsoft's Martyn Lovell:
"WinRT objects are reference counted like COM for memory management, with weak references to avoid circularity."
Apparently this was mentioned at his talk on WinRT internals at the BUILD convention.