Accessing a shared file?

Question

I\'m trying to read a file body from a Windows shared folder by it\'s UNC path, and getting this exception: The process cannot access the file \'\\\\\\lo

Answer 1

Try changing FileShare.Delete to FileShare.ReadWrite. This will allow the file to be read and written by other applications simultaneously. In other words

var logFile = (string)null;
using (var fileStream = new FileStream(logPath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite))
{
    using (var reader = new StreamReader(fileStream))
    {
        logFile = reader.ReadToEnd();
    }
}