c# xml.Load() locking file on disk causing errors

Question

I have a simple class XmlFileHelper as follows:

public class XmlFileHelper
{
    #region Private Members

    private XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();         


        

Answer 1

it depends on what you need from the file,

If you need it to be threasdsafe you would need to impliment a mutex to lock the loading between instance,

If you dont really need thread safe loading (i.e. the file never changes) you could load it via a filestream then load the XmlDocument from the stream

            FileStream xmlFile = new FileStream(xmlFilePath, FileMode.Open,
FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read);
            xmlDoc.Load(xmlFile);