VB.NET Excel Program Leaves EXCEL.EXE floating after completion

Question

I am writing a program that loops through all of the sheets in an Excel workbook and saves each sheet as its own workbook. It turned out to be a bit trickier than I expected

Answer 1

You might need to do the following if you have unreferenced COM objects that are being created:

GC.Collect()
GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers()

Taken from this MSDN forum post: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/netfxbcl/thread/cb5f7948-c229-483e-846b-a1cfbbcd86ca/