Is a File being written

[S Shulman]

Hi all

Is the a way of knowing whether a stream is open to a specific file
I need to create a file using another program and only when the program
finished writing the file I can copy it and I can't interact with the other
program to get this info on whether it is finished writing the file

Any dll .NET functions

Thank you in advance,
Shmuel Shulman

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Is the a way of knowing whether a stream is open to a specific file
I need to create a file using another program and only when the program
finished writing the file I can copy it and I can't interact with the
other program to get this info on whether it is finished writing the file

You can try to access the file and catch the exception that is thrown if the
file is exclusively locked by the other operation. Then you can do this
check using a timer every n milliseconds until the other application
releases the file.

 

[S Shulman]

Thanks Herfried

Seems to work

Shmuel

You can try to access the file and catch the exception that is thrown if
the file is exclusively locked by the other operation. Then you can do
this check using a timer every n milliseconds until the other application
releases the file.

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Herfried,

You can try to access the file and catch the exception that is thrown if
the file is exclusively locked by the other operation. Then you can do
this check using a timer every n milliseconds until the other application
releases the file.

I do not find this a Herfried solution from the last months.

(It is to practical and to easy to implement)

))

Cor

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Cor,

I do not find this a Herfried solution from the last months.

Show me a better solution... ;-).

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Show me a better solution... ;-).

When I had, I had given that



Cor