Question

I created a simple method that deletes an image from the server.

    public static void deleteImage(string deletePath)
    {
        if (!File.Exists(deletePath))
        {
            FileNotFoundException ex = new FileNotFoundException();
            throw ex;
        }

        try
        {
            File.Delete(deletePath);
        }
        catch (IOException ex)
        {
            throw ex;
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            throw ex;
        }
    }

The method works great on the Visual Studio development server, but when I try it out on the live server that uses IIS I keep getting an error saying the resource is in use. It eventually works after about 10 attempts but I can’t afford this.

Maybe I need to “lock” the file for this to work on IIS?

Thanks!

Answer 1

try this

FileInfo myfileinf = new FileInfo(deletePath);
myfileinf.Delete();