Properly disposing of an Excel.Application instance in C#.

[JDeats]

So I have a reference to Microsoft Office 10.0 Object Library in my
WinForms project (VS.NET 2005, 2.0 Framework)

using Microsoft.Offic e.Core;
using Excel;

I have an instance of Excel.Applicati on (excelApp) that I need to
properly dispose of. In my code I am using the following on
Form_Unload:
excelApp.Active Workbook.Close( true, Type.Missing, false);

This doesn't seem to always do the trick... Is there a proper way to
dispose of the Excel.Applicati on object and its associated objects?

[Peter Duniho]

Re: Properly disposing of an Excel.Applicati on instance in C#.

On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:33:33 -0700, JDeats <Jeremy.Deats@g mail.comwrote:

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excelApp.Active Workbook.Close( true, Type.Missing, false);
>
This doesn't seem to always do the trick... Is there a proper way to
dispose of the Excel.Applicati on object and its associated objects?

It seems to me that the Excel.Applicati on.Quit() method would be
appropriate.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb223560.aspx

That said, this probably isn't the best forum for Office interop
questions. I don't know off-hand the exact forum that would be more
appropriate, but surely there's one out there specific to that. If no
useful answer is forthcoming here, you should probably try finding a more
appropriate place for the question.

Pete