Kill mdb's and locks

[VBAHole22]

Is there a way to use the FileAttributes properties and methods to kill an mdb that is open and locked?

I have a third party library that is clinging to mdb's like they were going out of style. I want to kill the lock and delete the database, regardless of what the application thinks about it. Can I do this?

Right now the only way I can delete the mdb is if I kill the aspnet process from the previous run.

I've looked deeply into releasing all of the COM objects and references to no avail. Now I just want to kill, kill , kill Access files.

[Robby]

How are you releasing the COM object?

[VBAHole22]

Finally
           Marshal.ReleaseComObject(pFWrkSpace)
           Marshal.ReleaseComObject(g)
           Marshal.ReleaseComObject(pWrkSpcFactory)
           Marshal.ReleaseComObject(pFeatureDataset)
           Marshal.ReleaseComObject(pGPMessages)

           g = Nothing
           pFWrkSpace = Nothing
           pWrkSpcFactory = Nothing
           pFeatureDataset = Nothing
           pGPMessages = Nothing

           GC.Collect()
           COMSupport.AOUninitialize.Shutdown()

           Try
               Dim fileIOPerm1 As FileIOPermission
               If File.Exists(Destgdb) Then
                   fileIOPerm1.AddPathList(FileIOPermissionAccess.Write, Destgdb)
                   File.Delete(Destgdb)
               End If

           Catch ex As Exception
               Me.TextBox1.Text &= ex.Message
           End Try

       End Try

[bri189a]

I would think that once you kill the 3rd party tool that isn't correctly releasing the database that you could use System.Management to get the open processes and then kill the process from there.