Kill Instance of Application

Recently I was receiving an issue with an application I am supporting.

 

Problem

The application is a .NET Console application that using Microsoft Word to create reports. The problem is that an exception error would occur if Microsoft Word (WINWORD = Instance Name) was running.

 

Solution

// Code to kill Word issues if WINWORD is running on the current machine

// if word is running the reports will throw an exception so

// we must ensure the Microsoft Word application is not running

Process[] wordProcess = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName("WINWORD");
if (wordProcess.Length <= 1)
{

 foreach (Process p in wordProcess)

{

p.Kill();

}

}