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Finding write access to a file

Hi,

Can anyone tell me how to find that a file has write permissoins ??

like suppose i have a pdf file and i have opened in the adobe
acrobat, that file will be locked. So i need to know that if that file
is writable or not.

Thanks,
Ramachandran m s.

May 3 '06 #1
1 804
Get a FileInfo for the file and look at the Attributes property.

Ramachandran m s wrote:
Hi,

Can anyone tell me how to find that a file has write permissoins ??

like suppose i have a pdf file and i have opened in the adobe
acrobat, that file will be locked. So i need to know that if that file
is writable or not.

Thanks,
Ramachandran m s.

May 3 '06 #2

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