VB app doesn't release control of Excel.

[Kraig K]

I wrote a VB app that reads data from the COM ports and puts it into an array. Then it dumps the data to excel. When I'm done and want to view the data, I double-click the file and Excel doesn't fully launch. If I close my program, then it works. No matter what I try, unless my VB app is closed, any of the files that were created by my app won't load. Here's the parts of my code that have references to creating an Excel object.

Dim objExcel As New Excel.Application
Dim objBook As New Excel.Workbook

dlgCommon.DialogTitle = "Save Data to File"
      dlgCommon.Filter = "Excel Files(*.xls)|*.xls"
      dlgCommon.ShowSave
      Filename = dlgCommon.Filename
      Set objBook = objExcel.Workbooks.Add
      objExcel.Cells(1, 1) = "Force"
      objExcel.Cells(2, 1) = "(" & lblUnits.Caption & ")"
      objExcel.Cells(1, 3) = Date
      objExcel.Range("C:C").ColumnWidth = 9.5
         For i = 1 To Index
            objExcel.Cells(i + 3, 1) = DataArray(i)
         Next i

What do I have to add so I don't have to close my app first to view my data? The only thing I have in the Form_Unload is:
objExcel.Quit

Which doesn't seem to make a difference.

[Scott Penner]

You might try killing the reference to the application from VB.

That is set ObjBook and ObjExcel = nothing.

That should work...

[alex_read]

      Set objBook = objExcel.Workbooks.Add
      objExcel.Cells(1, 1) = "Force"
      objExcel.Cells(2, 1) = "(" & lblUnits.Caption & ")"
      objExcel.Cells(1, 3) = Date
      objExcel.Range("C:C").ColumnWidth = 9.5
         
      For i = 1 To Index
           objExcel.Cells(i + 3, 1) = DataArray(i)
      Next i
    
      objExcel.Workbooks(1).Save
      objExcel.Quit
      Set objExcel = nothing

You might just wanna look up the WITH statement also

[Kraig K]

I added the Set objExcel = Nothing
That took care of it, Thanks!

I was looking into that b4 but I must not have had it right.