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

If the file isn't too big to read into memory all at once:

xml.Load(new MemoryStream(File.ReadAllBytes(path)));