Question

I want to delete a file on my computer but the app throws an exception that The directory is busy. My first thought is to implement a dispose method in my class which does a file delete.
Knows anybody how to do this?

It’s actually a Picturebox which displays a image and if you click on a button beside the image you can remove it, thus deleting it. It’s propably that which blocks my filepath.

picobx.Image = Image.FromFile(//path)

Is there any solution to this?

PS. I want to dispose the resource so that I can delete…

do like this:

File.Delete(// path ) 

Answer 1

The Image.FromFile method actually locks the file thats why you can’t delete it. The best would be to read the image as a byte array using bytes = File.ReadBytes(filename), create a memorystream from the byte array, pass the memory stream to Image.FromStream to display the image and then delete it with the button click.