Killing a process

[CodingYoshi]

I tried Quit() along with setting it to null but the process still existed. Any other idea? I am thinking of logging the time my app starts and then checking the start time of each process. If the start time is bigger than start time of app and created by the same user then I will kill it. But it is still possible, the user opened an excel file outside my app while my app is active so this is not the best solution.

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[CodingYoshi]

No, there are actually separate processes created. Excel 2003

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[Lost User]

Did you try something along the lines of Where _excelApplication = Excel.Application

_excelApplication.Quit();
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject(_excelApplication);

?

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[CodingYoshi]

Just did both quit and ReleaseComObject methods but still there.

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[Lost User]

Without seeing your code I'd say your out of luck.

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[CodingYoshi]

Hope you can follow it through since I have written it in VB.NET. This is just a wrapper. The parts which might be of interest to you are the constructor and the Create method. Public Class ExcelBook Implements IObservable Private _parameters As Parameters Private _repoHelper As RepositoryHelper Private _sheets As Dictionary(Of String, Worksheet) Private _workBook As Workbook Private _xlApp As Application Private _summarySheet As ExcelSheet Public Sub New(ByVal params As Parameters) Me._xlApp = New Application() Me._workBook = Me._xlApp.Workbooks.Add() Me._repoHelper = Nothing Me._sheets = New Dictionary(Of String, Worksheet)(53) Me._parameters = params End Sub Private Sub DeleteDefaultSheets() Dim DeadSheet As Worksheet DeadSheet = Me._workBook.Sheets("Sheet1") DeadSheet.Delete() DeadSheet = Me._workBook.Sheets("Sheet2") DeadSheet.Delete() DeadSheet = Me._workBook.Sheets("Sheet3") DeadSheet.Delete() End Sub Public Sub Create() Me.CreateRepositories() Dim xSheet As ExcelSheet = Nothing Dim sheetSpecs As Sheet = Nothing Dim wSheet As Worksheet = Nothing ' If the report has a detail sheet and range is multiple for month or week or season then provide detail sheet specs to ' ExcelSheet constructor to create sheets with specification of the detail sheet ' First sheet must be reserved for the summary sheet ' After all detail sheets are finished, a summary sheet must be created. Dim stepInfo As New StepEventArgs() If (Me._parameters.Report.HasDetailSheet And Me._parameters.IsMultipleRanges) Then ' Details Sheets sheetSpecs = Me._parameters.Report.DetailSheet For Each repo As KeyValuePair(Of String, Repository) In Me._repoHelper wSheet = CType(Me._workBook.Worksheets.Add(), Worksheet) wSheet.Name = repo.Key xSheet = New ExcelSheet(wSheet, sheetSpecs, repo.Value, False, Me._parameters, Me._workBook) xSheet.Fill() Me._sheets.Add(repo.Key, xSheet.SpreadSheet) stepInfo.Message = repo.Key & " completed." RaiseEvent StepCompleted(Me, stepInfo) Next Me.DeleteDefaultSheets() ' All detail sheets are done now do the summary Dim repositoryTem

[Lost User]

next time, post your question in the vb.net forums, it really helps to know what language you are dealing with. Secondly, use the pre tags. Thirdly, this is how I did it (in vb.net)

Public Sub Terminate()
If _excelApplication IsNot Nothing Then
_excelApplication.DisplayAlerts = False
_excelApplication.Quit()
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject(_excelApplication)
_excelApplication = Nothing
_excelApplication.Finalize()
End If
End Sub

jeez.

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[CodingYoshi]

Sorry about that. The reason I posted it here is because I did not think it will get to the point where I need to post code. Still no luck. The process exists after doing all of the above.

EliottA wrote:

Thirdly, this is how I did it (in vb.net)

You mean it worked for you? Finalize() is not a member of Excel.Application.

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[Lost User]

Sorry, did not mean to throw that line in there.

CodingYoshi wrote:

he reason I posted it here is because I did not think it will get to the point where I need to post code.

Still belongs in the VB.Net forum.

CodingYoshi wrote:

The process exists after doing all of the above.

Err....ummm....does the process exist before execution...?

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[CodingYoshi]

No, I manually check to make sure no process exists before the execution and I also kill all the instances programmatically just to reassure using this code: foreach (Process p in Process.GetProcessesByName("EXCEL")) { p.Kill(); }

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[Lost User]

Again that is horrible design, what if a client has excel running? Create a new instance of excel, and set it's IgnoreRemoteRequests property to true, this will cause *your* instance of excel to operate under a new process.

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[yunusdemiray]

How do you create excell processes? System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("...") Something like that? If so save the process that you create.

List list = new List();
Process p = System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("...");
list.Add(p);
...
list[i].Kill();

:)

[CodingYoshi]

No, the problem is to make excel spreadsheets you have to create a new instance of the application class and add workbooks to it. This creates a process and I am trying to kill the process which I created but no luck so far. Here is the snippet: public void Constructor(Parameters params) { this._xlApp = New Application(); // This is the process I want to kill once I am finished creating the file. this._workBook = Me._xlApp.Workbooks.Add(); this._repoHelper = null; this._sheets = New Dictionary<String, Worksheet>(53); this._parameters = params; }

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