Is it possible to intercept (or be aware of) COM Reference counting on CLR objects exposed to COM

Question

I have rephrased this question.

When .net objects are exposed to COM Clients through COM iterop, a CCW (COM Callable Wrapper) is created, this sits between

Answer 1

From the .NET, request an IUnknown on the object. Call AddRef(), then Release(). Then take the return value of AddRef() and run with it.