Can I destroy a class instance even if there are still references?

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Published on 2010-06-01T07:13:31Z Indexed on 2010/06/01 7:43 UTC
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For debugging reasons I want to destroy a class instance which still as references. Is that possible? It doesn't have to be elegant or stable, because this'll never end up in production code.

To clarify:

Public Sub Main
    Dim o as MyClass
    Set o = New MyClass //o is created, one reference
    DestroyObject o     //Class_Terminate is called and the object destroyed
    //Further code, not using o
End Sub                 //Possible runtime error here (don't care)

Is that possible? One way would be to call IUnknown::Release to manually decrease the reference count, but how do I now how often I must call it?

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