Vb.net close excel file if open

To use the following code example, run it in the Sheet1 class in a document-level project for Excel. The way that you close a workbook that you specify by name is the same for VSTO Add-ins and document-level customizations. Specify the workbook name as an argument to the Workbooks collection. The following code example assumes that a workbook named NewWorkbook is open in Excel. Skip to main content.

To work …. You could be a victim of the double dot problem. See the note section of this code snippet for details. This is definitely a double dot problem.

You need to wrap the Excel object and implement the IDisposable interface in the wrapper. You also need to release the each Excel. Object you create. A minima you need the code I'm exposing below.

You might want to use Excel without using Interop, i. There must be packages available, let me know I'm still using this and getting more and more problems with it. I've gone back to working on this with no success. I've done a lot of reading and all offer various ideas.

I've also tried your method of closing the instances with no success. Here is my latest updates:. I cannot get these instances of Excel to close after numerous changes and attempts. Do you or any others have some good ideas? Are there some commands to kill any open Excel process that is open? Needless to say, with all of these Excel instances open, it really slows my computer down. Any help will be appreciated. Why I ask is in one app that I fielded I had to spawn a copy of my app to do a thing and it would exit when done and that would clean up nicely.

Files closing is one thing, a process is another. Sorry that I didn't read that right in your opening post. So I opened the task manager and saw many many instances of Excel open via the "Processes" tab. That's when I knew Excel wasn't completely closing the process. This tool was built in Visual Studio If you have ideas, don't hesitate to offer it. I'll try anything to get these processes to shut down. I didn't find an answer to my question. When you open the Workbook, and worksheets, are you showing it in Excel to the user?.

If so what is the user doing with it? Or is that all being hidden from the user, and you are creating Excel Files that will be saved by the same Excel automation code that you are using? A real big fella would have clarified all that Regards, Rob. Rob the nick name comes from working with a bunch of guys who were virtically challanged at one point, not the size of my brain which is pea sized. Points taken. I will be looping throught the dataset using a VB6 program.

Regards not so big fella. Most would have taken offense especially when some blind old bars—d missed the VB6. Or have I misunderstood and you need to know how to actually add a worksheet to a workbook? From: bigfella via visualbasic-l [mailto:visualbasic-l Groups. Just for the heck of it, try moving the statement AFTER the statement Michael S. Here is a quick thought change — oXLBook. OK Paste as. Treat my content as plain text, not as HTML.

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