Closing Open Files using C#

Question

I have a situation where people are connected to files on a share and it\'s blocking me from overwriting the file. I\'m trying to write a method that will look to see if a f

Answer 1

It would be difficult to consider all the ramifications of doing this because you can't necessarily predict the resulting behavior of the application that currently has the file locked.

Is there some other way to do this? For example do you have to overwrite the file right away, or can you have some external process that continually tries to overwrite the file every few minutes until it succeeds?