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Hi,
I'd like to know if there is an elegant way in .net for temporarily locking the access to a set of files to other users.
I can handle (copy, move etc.) something like 100 files in one shot, the files being given with wildcards in path name, so I need a simple way to process all the files and provide transaction integrity.
Thanks
File.Copy() and File.Move() will internally open the source file in exclusive mode and release the lock once the operation is done. So you don't need to do anything in terms of explicitly locking the files yourself. Note however this means you should wrap it inside a Try/Catch block since if another process has that file for itself, your copy operation will throw an exception.