[RESOLVED] URGENT - creating word object with office.interops

[cengineer]

I am using the office interop to open word documents and saving as html to do parsing work. After a few executions I notice that in the task manager under processes there are still instances of WINWORD.EXE running. I have used the
following to close the object but it is still there:

wordApp.Quit()
wordApp = Nothing

How do I close this in order to avoid overhead? Any ideas appreciated

[mickey_pt]

I had similar probelm with Excel...

You can do like i did, something like when start the process get the process id, and when you want quit, after saving and done everything you need, just call the kill method of the process...

[cengineer]

Thanks for the response; do you mean create a process when running the specific function or are you referring to the word.application.
Pardon my ignorance

[mickey_pt]

I'm referring to the application...

Here what i do in excel:

'Declare the function GetWindowThreadProcessID
 Public Declare Function GetWindowThreadProcessId Lib "user32" (ByVal hWnd As IntPtr, ByRef lpdwProcessId As IntPtr) As IntPtr
 
...
 prgExcel = New Excel.Application
        Dim inProcess As IntPtr 'To save the pointer to the process
        Dim inHandle As IntPtr = prgExcel.Hwnd 'Handle
        GetWindowThreadProcessId(inHandle, inProcess)
        Dim processExcel As Process = Process.GetProcessById(inProcess.ToInt64)
... 
'To close the application, if you call the quit and the application still open, just call the kill method
processExcel .Kill()