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

Are you calling Application.Quit , additionally since you're doing Interop it may be worthwhile to release the RCW wrapper.

So basically something like:

yourWordAppObject.Quit();
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject(yourWordAppObject);

Note some folks use: ReleaseComObject but there are some potential pitfalls