List processes currently accessing a file?

Question

What the title says, basically - is there a way to pull up a list of all the processes who are currently using a specified file, whether in read or write mode, asynchronously or not?

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C# newbie, learning on the go. I will probably ask a lot of followup questions about any answers already given, so fair warning and all.

Answer 1

Hi, here I the solution you are looking for:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/860656/how-does-one-figure-out-what-process-locked-a-file-using-c

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Mitja

Answer 2

Hello, you can use Process Monitor

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

HTH

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