c# MSOffice Interop Word will not kill winword.exe

Question

I\'m writing an application that needed a MSWord document parser.

I\'m using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document to extract the texts from the documents, but even

Answer 1

After performing the app.Quit(), you must do app = null; From my experiences, this will prevent leftover processes from hanging around. Just be sure to do the app.Quit() and app = null in your exception handler as well.