Proper disposal of COM interop objects in C# particularly MS Office applications

Question

I am developing an application that relies heavily on multiple Microsoft Office products including Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook among others. While doing rese

Answer 1

Objects should be disposed automatically by the GC after the object goes out of scope. If you need to release them sooner, you can use Marshal.ReleaseComObject http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.runtime.interopservices.marshal.releasecomobject.aspx