Programmatically creating files for use by separate application

Dear forum,
How do I create a file in .Net, and then 'release' it so that another application can use it

I am creating an application that involves programmatically creating a directory structure containing a number of text files.
Once the files are created, I programmatically use the DTS (Data Transformation Services) object model to fireup DTS packages which insert data into the files.
But the DTS packages are getting an error - the file is in use by another application...which is presumably the .Net application that is creating the files.

I am really stuck on this one, a bit of a novice with System.IO. Any help will be much appreciated.

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Programmatically creating files for use by separate application

Shimon273
Hi -
I have found that it works to enclose the statements in code blocks and then explicitly call the garbage collector.

Eg>
{
FileInfo f = new FileInfo(path);
f.Create();
}
GC.Collect;

But is there a better way to achieve this
TPM01

Hi,

The Create method returns a FileStream object which you need to close.

FileInfo f = new FileInfo(path);
FileStream objFileStream = f.Create();
objFileStream.Close();

Regards,
Vikram
Raymond Tong
Hey - many thanks that really helped me learn
Programmatically creating files for use by separate application

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