Accessing File

[AliAmjad]

Can anyone please give me a hint how to check whether a file i being accessed by another process or not, so that i can open it for manipulation. Thanks in advance!

AliAmjad(MCP) First make it Run THEN make it Run Fast!

[alx n]

Private Function isFileInUse(ByVal sFileName As String) As Boolean Dim nFileNum As Integer ' If the file is already opened by another process and the specified type of access ' is not allowed the Open operation fails and an error occurs. Try nFileNum = FileSystem.FreeFile() FileSystem.FileOpen(nFileNum, sFileName, OpenMode.Binary, OpenAccess.Read, OpenShare.LockReadWrite) FileSystem.FileClose(nFileNum) Catch Return True End Try Return False End Function

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