Question

I’m trying to delete a Image file in WPF, but WPF locks the file.

    <Image Source="C:\person.gif" x:Name="PersonImage">
        <Image.ContextMenu>
            <ContextMenu>
                <MenuItem Header="Delete..." x:Name="DeletePersonImageMenuItem" Click="DeletePersonImageMenuItem_Click"/>
            </ContextMenu>
        </Image.ContextMenu>
    </Image>

And the Click handler just looks like this:

    private void DeletePersonImageMenuItem_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        System.IO.File.Delete(@"C:\person.gif");
    }

But, when I try to delete the file it is locked and cannot be removed.

Any tips on how to delete the file?

Answer 1

First Remove it from the PersonImage control then delete the image. Hope that will help.
As you have assigned to the control in source, and remove it without unassigning the control source.

PersonImage.Source = null; 
System.IO.File.Delete(@"C:\person.gif"); 

hope that will help.