You must work with Excel Interop. I can successfully open and read from an excel file, but closing it, the background process for this excel is not killed. I tried using several solutions from previous SO links, but no luck! So my question is: how to kill the background process?
The following is the UPDATED CODE that I am currently using:
Excel.Application application = new Excel.Application();
var workbooks = application.Workbooks;
Excel.Workbook workbook = workbooks.Open(path);
Excel.Worksheet worksheet = workbook.ActiveSheet;
Excel.Range range = worksheet.UsedRange;
var rows = range.Rows;
for (int row = 2; row <= rows.Count; row++)
{
}
rows.Clear();
cell.Clear();
range.Clear();
workbook.Close(false);
application.Quit();
while (Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject(rows) != 0) { }
while (Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject(cell) != 0) { }
while (Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject(range) != 0) { }
while (Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject(worksheet) != 0) { }
while (Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject(workbook) != 0) { }
while (Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject(workbooks) != 0) { }
while (Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject(application) != 0) { }
rows = null;
cell = null;
range = null;
worksheet = null;
workbook = null;
workbooks = null;
application = null;
GC.Collect();
GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers();
Following the code above , I get the following exception in my debugger :

Any help on this would be appreciated.
source
share