I've got a little utility that uses OLE to open and interogate an Excel spreadsheet in VFP.

An abstract of my methodology:

WITH THIS
m.lcSrcXLS = GETFILE('XLS')

.hoExcelApp = CREATEOBJECT("Excel.Application")

IF NOT ISNULL(.hoExcelApp)
WITH .hoExcelApp
.Workbooks.Open(m.lcSrcXLS, .F., .T.) && readonly
.Workbooks[THIS.pnXlsWorkbook].Activate()
.Worksheets[THIS.pnXlsSpreadsheet].Activate()
ENDWITH

*** get information from the Excel spreadsheet

.hoExcelApp.WorkBooks(.pnXlsWorkbook).Close()
.hoExcelApp = .NULL.
ENDIF
ENDWITH

My problem is that when I leave the program, VFP still has a lock on the XLS file. I would have thought that the Closee() method would have broken the link into the XLS file, and NULLing the Excel object should have broken any ties to Excel.

What's missing?

TIA
Thom C.