How to Kill Excel Ghost Process in SSIS using VB.NET

Here is the simple method to kill Excel Ghost process which is running behind scene while running SSIS package. Here is a small method to kill Excel process if we know the excel caption or excel title we want to close.
Code snippet of the method to kill Excel process

Private Sub KillExcellProcess(ByVal excelCaption As String)
    Dim proc As System.Diagnostics.Process
    For Each proc In System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName("EXCEL")
        If (proc.MainWindowTitle = excelCaption) Then
            proc.Kill()
        End If
    Next
End Sub

Use this method in SSIS script task to kill the Excel Ghost process by calling this method in your code

 

Dim xlApp As Excel.Application
Dim xlBook As Excel.WorkbookClass
xlApp = CType(CreateObject("Excel.Application"), Excel.Application)
xlApp.Visible = False
xlApp.DisplayAlerts = False
' Once done with excel stuff and when you want 
' to kill excel use the below lines of code
Dim sCaption As String
sCaption = xlApp.Caption
KillExcellProcess(sCaption)

 

Hope this helps!!