The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

[singhdurgesh]

Hi I am writting the following code to write into text file.After Checking whether the file exixt or not ,It is giving the following error.Can any one help. Any solution to this problem would be appreciated. public void Ping(string hostName) { string path; path = @"C:\CheckList\checklist_"+DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyyMMdd")+".txt"; if (!File.Exists(path)) { File.Create(path); } TextWriter tw = new StreamWriter(path,true); Error comes when we create text writer.

[Ennis Ray Lynch Jr]

File.Create returns an open stream to the file created, locking it.

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[pkreddy04]

Check if the file is being used by some other process? Are you writing to a directory which is read only?

[0x3c0]

You don't need the if statement at all. If the file doesn't exist, the StreamWriter will create it

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