>AddRef</span> on it.  When VB sets the object to 
<span class="code">Nothing</span> later when it goes out of scope, VB will call
<span class="code">Release</span>.  This means you have a paired AddRef/Release call,
which is not the case with COM calls that return a pointer to a pointer to
an object.
</p><h2>Using ICDBurn</h2><p>
As you will have seen from the interface spec above, there's not too much to <span class="code">ICDBurn</span>.
The <span class="code">HasRecordableDrive</span> method tells you w