objects staying in memory - RESOLVED

[stingrae]

what do people here think is the best way to remove an object from memory? for example, if have:

        Dim wrdApp As New Word.Application()
        Dim wrdDoc As Word.Document
          :
          :
          :
          :
        wrdDoc = Nothing
        wrdApp = Nothing

now when i step through the code with the windows task manager open (viewing processes), I see winword.exe appear after the line "dim wrdApp" in the code.

however, after i set wrdApp to nothing, the file is still running around. hence after running this code 6 times, i have 6 different instances of winword.exe running.

i have tried using GC.Dispose but this too does nothing to the processes.

does anyone have any better ideas or suggestions?

[robbedaya]

GC.collect

[stingrae]

oops. i meant GC.Collect instead of GC.Dispose.
that didn't work for me.

cheers,

stingrae

[Pirate]

That happens in vb.net environment , I was having similar problem .I was trying to force GC to fire as need but it works in random interval.anyways, why don't you try another way ,such this

Kill an Application
dunno if it's of help .

[stingrae]

thanks pirate, nice idea.
do you know what happens though if the user has other instances of word open? will it close the one that my application opened, or close all?

[stingrae]

took me 3 months, but i finally figured it out!

Dim wrdDoc As Word.Document
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CType(wrdDoc, Word._Document).Close()