Question

I have a personal website written in ASP.NET Web Pages, with a small SQL Server Compact Edition database. This is handy for me because the database is stored as a file (.sdf), and when I add, modify or delete any records and test it out locally, I can just use Publish… in WebMatrix and copy the .sdf file over.

This works great except for a random error message I get when it accesses the .sdf file.

I get…
There is a file sharing violation. A different process might be using the file.

Sometimes a page refresh will fix it, sometimes I have to refresh the page a couple of times. I suppose migrating the database to a SQL Server database will fix it, but I don’t really want to do that. Is that the best option though?

Here’s a link to the site, maybe you’ll hit the error: http://www.garethlewisweb.com

Is there something I have to change in the code, or will I need to ask my hosting company to change something. I don’t really have a lot of experience in this area.

Thanks!

Update

Here’s my code

_AppStart.cshtml

@{
     WebSecurity.InitializeDatabaseConnection("GarethLewisWeb", "UserProfile", "UserId", "Email", true);
     // WebMail.SmtpServer = "mailserver.example.com";
     // WebMail.EnableSsl = true;
     // WebMail.UserName = "[e-mail]";
     // WebMail.Password = "your-password";
     // WebMail.From = "[e-mail]";
}

Default.cshtml

@{  
    Layout = "~/Shared/_SiteLayout.cshtml";
    Page.Title = "Home";

    var db = Database.Open("GarethLewisWeb");

    var featuredPhotoSQL = "    SELECT  col " +
                           "      FROM  tablename ";

    var featuredPhoto = db.QuerySingle(featuredPhotoSQL);
}


[Lots of HTML and C# code here...]

Answer 1

Not really an answer to this specific problem, but the migration to SQL Server solved this issue.