System.IO.IOException: file used by another process

Question

I\'ve been working on this small piece of code that seems trivial but still, i cannot really see where is the problem. My functions do a pretty simple thing. Opens a file, c

Answer 1

It worked for me.

Here is my test code. Test run follows:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            FileInfo f = new FileInfo(args[0]);
            bool result = modifyFile(f, args[1],args[2]);
        }
        private static bool modifyFile(FileInfo file, string extractedMethod, string modifiedMethod) 
        { 
            Boolean result = false; 
            FileStream fs = new FileStream(file.FullName + ".tmp", FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write); 
            StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(fs); 
            StreamReader streamreader = file.OpenText(); 
            String originalPath = file.FullName; 
            string input = streamreader.ReadToEnd(); 
            Console.WriteLine("input : {0}", input); 
            String tempString = input.Replace(extractedMethod, modifiedMethod); 
            Console.WriteLine("replaced String {0}", tempString); 
            try 
            { 
                sw.Write(tempString); 
                sw.Flush(); 
                sw.Close(); 
                sw.Dispose(); 
                fs.Close(); 
                fs.Dispose(); 
                streamreader.Close(); 
                streamreader.Dispose(); 
                File.Copy(originalPath, originalPath + ".old", true); 
                FileInfo newFile = new FileInfo(originalPath + ".tmp"); 
                File.Delete(originalPath); 
                File.Copy(originalPath + ".tmp", originalPath, true); 
                result = true; 
            } 
            catch (Exception ex) 
            { 
                Console.WriteLine(ex); 
            } 
            return result; 
        }
    }
}


C:\testarea>ConsoleApplication1.exe file.txt padding testing
input :         
replaced String