Hello, I have questions about good 3rd party safe pointers. I want to have a good reliable set of safe pointers, mostly for DirectX Com pointers available in my game engine. Question) Should I use CComPtr CAutoPtr etc. in the ATL library ... or boost ... or should I write my own? What would you recommend? I will be using DirectX and C++. Thank you for your help. Jeremy

Writing your own is certainly going to be overkill and I would not recommend it unless you need to do some special things with the pointers.

Why do you need 3rd party safe pointers; Why not use std::auto_ptr?