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

My reputation being too small to comment an answer, here is my feedback concerning roquen answer (using settings on xmlwriter to force the stream to close): it works perfectly and it made me save a lot of time. roquen's example requires some adjustment, here is the code that works on .NET framework 4.8 :

    XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings();
    settings.CloseOutput = true;
    writer = XmlWriter.Create(stream, settings);