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Marius
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FileSystemWatcher and reading from file
Jun 10 2011 12:23 PM
So, my situation is something like this:
What I want to do is to detect when the contents of a file change, and then read from that file (and use the data for whatever). The trouble is, when I try to do that, I get a "File is in use" exception.
Some code:
FileSystemWatcher watcher = new FileSystemWatcher();
watcher.NotifyFilter = NotifyFilters.LastWrite;
watcher.Path = pathToFile;
watcher.Filter = fileName;
//then the event:
watcher.Changed = new FileSystemEventHandler(watcher_Changed);
watcher.EnableRaisingEvents = true;
//and the handler
void watcher_Changed(object sender, FileSystemEventArgs e)
{
FileStream fs = new FileStream(pathToFile + fileName, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);
//read from file, etc etc
}
So, this basically says that the file cannot be accessed because it's open by another process. I assume the FileStream locks the file or something like that?
It works when not trying to read from the file...
Anyway I can fix this?
Thanks in advance.
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