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The following article discussed how to use the Excel, close and kill it:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;317109

But if you added a oBook.SaveAs(.. .) to save the workbook in the code, it
never worked for me. We use Excel 2003 and Visual Studio 2003 under Windows
XP. We don't have problem to kill Excel instance under Windows 2000, feels
like it is a new problem come with XP. I have been searching google for days
and tried all kinds of solution, no luch so far. Please help!!! Thanks.
Jul 21 '05 #1
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Hi,

I looke at the article you reference and I don't see anything that it's
missing, but admittedly I just scanned it.

More importantly, the code below always works for me - on xp machines, no
problem (csvfilename is the full path to a .dbf file - eg,
f:\apps\dbffile s\test.dbf):

Dim xlapp As New Excel.Applicati on

Dim xlbook As Excel.Workbook

Dim csvfilename As String

If ftype = "csv" Then

xlbook.SaveAs(c svfilename, xlCSV) ' csv

Else

xlbook.SaveAs(c svfilename, xlExcel7) ' xls 7

End If

xlapp.DisplayAl erts = False

xlbook.Close()

xlapp.DisplayAl erts = True

xlapp.Quit()

Marshal.Release ComObject(xlapp ) ' this is necessary to release a com object

xlbook = Nothing

xlapp = Nothing

HTH,

Bernie Yaeger

"A frustrated developer" <A frustrated de*******@discu ssions.microsof t.com>
wrote in message news:34******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...
The following article discussed how to use the Excel, close and kill it:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;317109

But if you added a oBook.SaveAs(.. .) to save the workbook in the code, it
never worked for me. We use Excel 2003 and Visual Studio 2003 under
Windows
XP. We don't have problem to kill Excel instance under Windows 2000, feels
like it is a new problem come with XP. I have been searching google for
days
and tried all kinds of solution, no luch so far. Please help!!! Thanks.

Jul 21 '05 #2
A frustrated developer wrote:
The following article discussed how to use the Excel, close and kill it:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;317109

But if you added a oBook.SaveAs(.. .) to save the workbook in the code, it
never worked for me. We use Excel 2003 and Visual Studio 2003 under Windows
XP. We don't have problem to kill Excel instance under Windows 2000, feels
like it is a new problem come with XP. I have been searching google for days
and tried all kinds of solution, no luch so far. Please help!!! Thanks.


A lot of things can affect this.

Are you trying to save an excel workbook from within
the same workbook? Are you modifying the code in the
workbook using the VBIDE Extensibility model?

Another thing that can affect this is if Excel tries
to pop up a dialog box on the save, such as to confirm
that information may be lost saving in the selected
format. You'll probably have to post again, giving a
-lot- more details, and a working sample of the code.

Do not reply via email; reply to the newsgroup.
Jul 21 '05 #3

"A frustrated developer" <A frustrated de*******@discu ssions.microsof t.com>
wrote in message news:34******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...
The following article discussed how to use the Excel, close and kill it:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;317109

But if you added a oBook.SaveAs(.. .) to save the workbook in the code, it
never worked for me. We use Excel 2003 and Visual Studio 2003 under Windows XP. We don't have problem to kill Excel instance under Windows 2000, feels
like it is a new problem come with XP. I have been searching google for days and tried all kinds of solution, no luch so far. Please help!!! Thanks.


Do you have the Google desktop installed? If it's present, it prevents Excel
from shutting down.

/Fredrik
Jul 21 '05 #4
You are super. I do have Google desktop installed on my machine, after I
uninstalled it, it worked like a charm. Thanks for all the replys to help me
out -:)

"Fredrik Wahlgren" wrote:

"A frustrated developer" <A frustrated de*******@discu ssions.microsof t.com>
wrote in message news:34******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...
The following article discussed how to use the Excel, close and kill it:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;317109

But if you added a oBook.SaveAs(.. .) to save the workbook in the code, it
never worked for me. We use Excel 2003 and Visual Studio 2003 under

Windows
XP. We don't have problem to kill Excel instance under Windows 2000, feels
like it is a new problem come with XP. I have been searching google for

days
and tried all kinds of solution, no luch so far. Please help!!! Thanks.


Do you have the Google desktop installed? If it's present, it prevents Excel
from shutting down.

/Fredrik

Jul 21 '05 #5

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