Taking it along for the ride.

At least, that's how it looks from the outside.

There's an interface for that. Please use it.

C++/CX overloads the class member access control keywords to control metadata generation.

And why it's badly-named.

It's internally managing a reference count.

A colloqualism that has become a preferred adjective.

This may even have been its original purpose.

It's the same thing, just going in the opposite direction, right?

The fault is in ourselves, after all.