, Active X, Controls, Components" /><meta name="DESCRIPTION" content="VB and COM makes a lot of things easy to do, particularly using and dealing with objects:
you just create them and normally they clear themselves up automatically once you're finished
with them.  However, one side effect of the way COM works is that it is possible to create objects
which cannot terminate properly: this problem is known as a 'Circular Reference'.
The effects of a circular reference can range from using more memory than you