File.Delete Access to the path is denied

Question

My console application program is creating some runtime files while it is working so what I want to do is delete all of these files on the application startup. I have tried

Answer 1

Try using the Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO.FileSystem methods as it has a handy DeleteDirectory method, I had access troubles awhile ago and this was the fix for my problem.

var directory = new DirectoryInfo(targetDir);
if (directory.Exists)
{
    Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO.FileSystem.DeleteDirectory(targetDir, Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO.DeleteDirectoryOption.DeleteAllContents);
}