Releasing COM Objects
You should always explicitly release objects that wrap COM components so that associated resources are also released. You accomplish this by invoking the System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseCOMObject method. Continuing with the previous example, you release the AxWindowsMediaPlayer1 object as follows:
This is important because COM objects treat system resources differently from .NET objects; therefore, an explicit release is required.
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