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Hanselminutes Podcast 24 - More Advanced PowerShell

July 13, 2006 Comment on this post [1] Posted in Podcast | PowerShell | ASP.NET | XML | Tools
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July 13, 2006 18:03
Hello there, scott? I have enjoyed your podcast Powershell Part II.
I just wanted to point out one thing about disposing a COM object in powershell from what i have experimented.
Suppose that i create a COM object of type Excel application,
$excel = New-Object -com excel.application
Although you would set the excel object to $null($excel = $null) or delete the variable(remove-variable $excel), the COM object you have created will still be there in the memory for a while(but i am not why the COM object is released almost right away from time to time)

[^_^]PS[277]>$excel = New-Object -com excel.application
[^_^]PS[278]>$excel = $null
[^_^]PS[279]>gps excel

Handles NPM(K) PM(K) WS(K) VM(M) CPU(s) Id ProcessName
------- ------ ----- ----- ----- ------ -- -----------
156 5 5252 8792 198 0.16 8004 EXCEL

But if you release the com object manually using .NET function, COM object is freed almost instantaneously.
[^_^]PS[294]>$excel = New-Object -com excel.application
[^_^]PS[295]>([System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::ReleaseComObject([System.__ComObject]$excel) -gt 0)
False
[^_^]PS[296]>gps excel
Get-Process : No process with process name 'excel' was found.
At line:1 char:4
+ gps <<<< excel

I have asked about disposing a COM object on NG a while ago, on http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.server.scripting/browse_frm/thread/54594c91758c6cad/2154eca85c2c24ee?q=disposing+com+objects+in+msh&rnum=1#2154eca85c2c24ee
and check out answeres by "Jouko Kynsijärvi" and "Keith Hill" has suggested.

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