Question

I am getting a pretty common, “The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.”

Now I am nearly certain that the only process accessing this file is from code that I have written and I’ve been careful to use a using statement around accessing it.

But to be 100% sure, is there anyway to check this programatically when this error occurs?

Answer 1

There is also a small tool handle.exe in Sysinternals Suite that does exactly what you need. Use it from the command line:

handle.exe -a <filename>

Of course under Vista and Windows 7 this tool must be run elevated.