Close Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook) before install an Office 2007 Add-in

Question

Hello All, How can I close any Office 2007 running application like Word,Excel,Outlook before installing an Office 2007 Add-in in a Visual Studio 2008 Setup Project?

Thanks! Martin

Answer 1

See here for sample code of how to attach to a running instance of Excel, enabling you to manipulate it (including terminating the instance). See here for sample code of getting the RunningObjectTable, used to get all instances of a specified application.