Kill process??

Question

Hi
When I save my data to Excel, a thread is started and when it's done it closes the thread. It seemed to work well without any problem. But after I got it working I noticed that I was running 96 processes!! If an error occurs while it is sending the data to the excel file, the thread does not get killed.
So, how do I kill "EXCEL.EXE" thread??

David Isaac · Accepted Answer

public Process [] GetRunningProcesses( string machineName)
{
/// /
// Get the System process list
///
///
if ( string .IsNullOrEmpty(machineName))
machineName = "." ;
Process [] procs = Process .GetProcesses(machineName);
return procs;
}
public void KillProcess( string processName) //Process name "EXCEL"
{
foreach ( Process p in GetRunningProcesses( string .Empty))
{
if (p.ProcessName == processName)
p.Kill();
}
}

NeCroFire · Answer

schweet!
thnx!

NeCroFire · Answer

I am using ExcelAutomation. It creates the process itself and then kills the process when it's finished. But if it gets an error, the process is not killed. I need the easiest way to retrieve all running processes, finding the "EXCEL.EXE" process and then killing it.

David Isaac · Answer

try the .Abort() method on the thread object