Hello everyone, i am using VB.NET, actually that doesn't really matter, or it may, but anyways i have a question about writing files.

I am implementing a system where if you write an article, it updates the RSS representation of that topic, and well, if two processes are trying to write the same file "foo.xml" it bombs and makes me very angry! Is there a way to check to see if the file is already open or in use?

in essence i want,

if isFileOpen("foo.xml") OR isFileLockedBySomeProccess("foo.xml") then
 ' Don't do anything
  exit sub
end if

thanks everyone

When it bombs, note the exception that is thrown. Then use a try...catch block to catch that exception type and handle the error.

Try
    'try saving the file
Catch e As <the exception you see when it bombs>
    'Tell the user that the file can't be saved
Finally
    'Do stuff that's applicable to either success or failure
End Try

Peter
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