This is part 5/5 of my Deterministic Finalization and IDisposable post series.
This is the final example in my series on deterministic finalization in garbage-collected languages and the true motive behind the series: AutoReleaseComObject. The idea behind AutoReleaseComObject is simple: it is nothing but a wrapper around a COM object which calls Marshal.ReleaseComObject() upon Dispose() until the COM object’s reference count is 0 and the object is freed. Here’s the implementation:
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Recently I’ve had to write a bit of code which communicates with Microsoft Excel using its object model. Here are a few things I have learned from this experience.
Interaction with the Excel object model seems to use some kind of inter-process communication with an Excel process that is started behind the scenes. If things are not shut down properly, this Excel process will continue to run indefinitely in the background.
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