How can I detect if a file sitting on a network drive is still open by another
application?
This application resides on another machine on the network?
I am using VB.NET 2003
Your help is highly appreciated
6  3106 
Try to open it, if you cant open it, it's still in use.
You could write a try catch around this and eventually write some loop to
test periodically if you can open it, and when you can, you could use the
file?
"Moumen VB.NET 2003/2005 Developer"
<Mo************ **************@ discussions.mic rosoft.com> wrote in message
news:1D******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com... How can I detect if a file sitting on a network drive is still open by
another
application?
This application resides on another machine on the network?
I am using VB.NET 2003
Your help is highly appreciated
Hi,
I tried your approach, but with no success.
Could you please post some code on how you can do it?
Thanks
"Joris De Groote" wrote: Try to open it, if you cant open it, it's still in use.
You could write a try catch around this and eventually write some loop to
test periodically if you can open it, and when you can, you could use the
file?
"Moumen VB.NET 2003/2005 Developer"
<Mo************ **************@ discussions.mic rosoft.com> wrote in message
news:1D******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com... How can I detect if a file sitting on a network drive is still open by
another
application?
This application resides on another machine on the network?
I am using VB.NET 2003
Your help is highly appreciated
I would write something like:
' Precondition: the file "theFile" is known to exist
Public Function IsLocked(ByVal theFile As String) As Boolean
Dim theStream As FileStream
Dim theResult As Boolean
Try
' To test if the file is locked, it is enough just to try and open
it and handle
' any (resulting) exception. If an exception is raised, then the
file is locked.
theStream = New FileStream(theF ile, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Writ e)
' Success
theResult = False
Catch ex As IOException
' We failed to open it for writing, so it's probably locked.
theResult = True
Finally
If Not theStream Is Nothing Then
theStream.Close ()
End If
End Try
Return theResult
End Function
"Moumen VB.NET 2003/2005 Developer"
<Mo************ **************@ discussions.mic rosoft.com> wrote in message
news:8F******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com... Hi,
I tried your approach, but with no success.
Could you please post some code on how you can do it?
Thanks
"Joris De Groote" wrote:
Try to open it, if you cant open it, it's still in use.
You could write a try catch around this and eventually write some loop to
test periodically if you can open it, and when you can, you could use the
file?
"Moumen VB.NET 2003/2005 Developer"
<Mo************ **************@ discussions.mic rosoft.com> wrote in message
news:1D******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com... > How can I detect if a file sitting on a network drive is still open by
> another
> application?
>
> This application resides on another machine on the network?
>
> I am using VB.NET 2003
>
> Your help is highly appreciated
>
Yep
And if you want to wait until you want to open it, you can stil write a
while loop around it and keep trying until theResult = false .
Greetz
"Robin Mark Tucker" <ro************ *@removehotmail .comremove> wrote in
message news:e5******** ***********@new s.demon.co.uk.. . I would write something like:
' Precondition: the file "theFile" is known to exist
Public Function IsLocked(ByVal theFile As String) As Boolean
Dim theStream As FileStream
Dim theResult As Boolean
Try
' To test if the file is locked, it is enough just to try and open
it and handle
' any (resulting) exception. If an exception is raised, then the
file is locked.
theStream = New FileStream(theF ile, FileMode.Open,
FileAccess.Writ e)
' Success
theResult = False
Catch ex As IOException
' We failed to open it for writing, so it's probably locked.
theResult = True
Finally
If Not theStream Is Nothing Then
theStream.Close ()
End If
End Try
Return theResult
End Function
"Moumen VB.NET 2003/2005 Developer"
<Mo************ **************@ discussions.mic rosoft.com> wrote in message
news:8F******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com... Hi,
I tried your approach, but with no success.
Could you please post some code on how you can do it?
Thanks
"Joris De Groote" wrote:
Try to open it, if you cant open it, it's still in use.
You could write a try catch around this and eventually write some loop
to
test periodically if you can open it, and when you can, you could use
the
file?
"Moumen VB.NET 2003/2005 Developer"
<Mo************ **************@ discussions.mic rosoft.com> wrote in
message
news:1D******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...
> How can I detect if a file sitting on a network drive is still open by
> another
> application?
>
> This application resides on another machine on the network?
>
> I am using VB.NET 2003
>
> Your help is highly appreciated
>
Joris & Robin,
Thank you very much for your valuable replies.
However, I noticed that when I try to open a text file through NotePad.exe,
my program cannot detect that the file is open for writing by NotePad. On the
other hand, if I open the same text file with MS-Word, my program works
perfectly.
I would like my program to work with any application that tries to open the
network file.
Do you know why this happening only with NotePad?
Thanks!
"Joris De Groote" wrote: Yep
And if you want to wait until you want to open it, you can stil write a
while loop around it and keep trying until theResult = false .
Greetz
"Robin Mark Tucker" <ro************ *@removehotmail .comremove> wrote in
message news:e5******** ***********@new s.demon.co.uk.. .I would write something like:
' Precondition: the file "theFile" is known to exist
Public Function IsLocked(ByVal theFile As String) As Boolean
Dim theStream As FileStream
Dim theResult As Boolean
Try
' To test if the file is locked, it is enough just to try and open
it and handle
' any (resulting) exception. If an exception is raised, then the
file is locked.
theStream = New FileStream(theF ile, FileMode.Open,
FileAccess.Writ e)
' Success
theResult = False
Catch ex As IOException
' We failed to open it for writing, so it's probably locked.
theResult = True
Finally
If Not theStream Is Nothing Then
theStream.Close ()
End If
End Try
Return theResult
End Function
"Moumen VB.NET 2003/2005 Developer"
<Mo************ **************@ discussions.mic rosoft.com> wrote in message
news:8F******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com... Hi,
I tried your approach, but with no success.
Could you please post some code on how you can do it?
Thanks
"Joris De Groote" wrote:
Try to open it, if you cant open it, it's still in use.
You could write a try catch around this and eventually write some loop
to
test periodically if you can open it, and when you can, you could use
the
file?
"Moumen VB.NET 2003/2005 Developer"
<Mo************ **************@ discussions.mic rosoft.com> wrote in
message
news:1D******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...
> How can I detect if a file sitting on a network drive is still open by
> another
> application?
>
> This application resides on another machine on the network?
>
> I am using VB.NET 2003
>
> Your help is highly appreciated
>
I don't know this for sure (but this is what I think)
I don't think Notepad locks a file (since its pretty much a very basic
program), MS-Word does.
Joris
"Moumen VB.NET 2003/2005 Developer"
<Mo************ **************@ discussions.mic rosoft.com> wrote in message
news:B1******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...
Joris & Robin,
Thank you very much for your valuable replies.
However, I noticed that when I try to open a text file through
NotePad.exe,
my program cannot detect that the file is open for writing by NotePad. On
the
other hand, if I open the same text file with MS-Word, my program works
perfectly.
I would like my program to work with any application that tries to open
the
network file.
Do you know why this happening only with NotePad?
Thanks!
"Joris De Groote" wrote:
Yep
And if you want to wait until you want to open it, you can stil write a
while loop around it and keep trying until theResult = false .
Greetz
"Robin Mark Tucker" <ro************ *@removehotmail .comremove> wrote in
message news:e5******** ***********@new s.demon.co.uk.. . >I would write something like:
>
>
> ' Precondition: the file "theFile" is known to exist
>
> Public Function IsLocked(ByVal theFile As String) As Boolean
>
> Dim theStream As FileStream
> Dim theResult As Boolean
>
> Try
>
> ' To test if the file is locked, it is enough just to try and
> open
> it and handle
> ' any (resulting) exception. If an exception is raised, then the
> file is locked.
>
> theStream = New FileStream(theF ile, FileMode.Open,
> FileAccess.Writ e)
>
> ' Success
>
> theResult = False
>
> Catch ex As IOException
>
> ' We failed to open it for writing, so it's probably locked.
>
> theResult = True
>
> Finally
>
> If Not theStream Is Nothing Then
> theStream.Close ()
> End If
>
> End Try
>
> Return theResult
>
> End Function
>
>
>
>
>
> "Moumen VB.NET 2003/2005 Developer"
> <Mo************ **************@ discussions.mic rosoft.com> wrote in
> message
> news:8F******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tried your approach, but with no success.
>>
>> Could you please post some code on how you can do it?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> "Joris De Groote" wrote:
>>
>>> Try to open it, if you cant open it, it's still in use.
>>> You could write a try catch around this and eventually write some
>>> loop
>>> to
>>> test periodically if you can open it, and when you can, you could use
>>> the
>>> file?
>>>
>>>
>>> "Moumen VB.NET 2003/2005 Developer"
>>> <Mo************ **************@ discussions.mic rosoft.com> wrote in
>>> message
>>> news:1D******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...
>>> > How can I detect if a file sitting on a network drive is still open
>>> > by
>>> > another
>>> > application?
>>> >
>>> > This application resides on another machine on the network?
>>> >
>>> > I am using VB.NET 2003
>>> >
>>> > Your help is highly appreciated
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>
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