how can you easily check if access is denied for a file in .NET?

Question

Basically, I would like to check if I have rights to open the file before I actually try to open it; I do not want to use a try/catch for this check unless I have to. Is the

Answer 1

Here is the solution you are looking for

var fileIOPermission = new FileIOPermission(FileIOPermissionAccess.Read,
                                            System.Security.AccessControl.AccessControlActions.View,
                                            MyPath);

if (fileIOPermission.AllFiles == FileIOPermissionAccess.Read)
{
    // Do your thing here...
}

this creates a new permission of read based on view for path of all files then checks if it's equal to file access read.