I'm sure it's something simple I'm overlooking but... I have a .NET app
written in C#. I imported a couple of different COM servers via the Add
Reference->COM window. I then start up the servers by "new"ing them up (see
example code below). The server starts up correctly. The problem is that when
my application exits, the server doesn't go away. I.e. if I look at Task
Manager, I still see the process running - in the case of my example,
Winword. I thought maybe it just took a couple of minutes for the process to
be released but no matter how long I wait, it doesn't go away and I have to
manually kill the process. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks, Robin

EXAMPLE CODE:

using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Reflection
using Word = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word;

namespace MySpace
{
  class Driver
  {
     private Word._Application m_word;

     internal void startWord()
     {
        m_word = new Word.Application();
     }
  }
}