XmlTextReader - Does it lock the file?

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This is probably a really simple thing, but I haven't been able to find it, and I'm probably just searching for the wrong thing...

XmlTextReader --> Does it lock the file you're reading? I'm using reader.Read() and that's about it.

Samuel · Accepted Answer · 2009-03-26T15:26:06.863

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When you create a new XmlTextReader providing a string, it will lock the file with a write lock (but not a read lock); however, if you provide it a Stream, it would depend on the stream itself.

FileStream stream = new FileStream(@"myfile.xml", FileMode.Open,
                            FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite);
XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(stream);

You can now read without having a lock.

edited Mar 26 '09 at 15:26

answered Mar 26 '09 at 15:17

Samuel

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+1 beat me to the answer. Can also do FileStream stream = File.Open(...) – Michael Meadows Mar 26 '09 at 15:18
Yeah, same difference. One probably calls the other (which I don't know, but you could find out with Reflector.) – Samuel Mar 26 '09 at 15:21
Thank you, you are the reason I can finally go to sleep tonight :-) Previously I tried async read, reader.dispose(), none worked. thank you Good night everybody – Bibaswann Bandyopadhyay Sep 29 '15 at 21:38

XmlTextReader - Does it lock the file?

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