killing process used by vb.net

Question

I need some help with my program. I want to rewrite the data on my .txt file but an error occurs:

The process cannot access the file 'C:\\Users\\AARVIII\\Documents\\Visual Studio 2010\\Projects\\PROJECT\\WindowsApplication3\\bin\\Debug\\ORDERS\\aa.txt' because it is being used by another process.

Here is the code:

Sub WRITEDATA()

    Dim write As New System.IO.StreamWriter("ORDERS\" & TBFNAME.Text + "" + TBLNAME.Text & ".txt", False)
    write.WriteLine(TBFNAME.Text)
    write.WriteLine(TBLNAME.Text)
    write.WriteLine(TBEADD.Text)
    write.WriteLine(TBEADD2.Text)
    write.WriteLine(TBADDRESS.Text)
    write.WriteLine(TBCONTACT.Text)
    write.close()

End Sub

I used a StreamReader to get the data which had already been put in that text file. Please help me figure out how to kill that process so that I can rewrite my data.

Answer 1

It is very possible that your app (on another thread?) is the culprit. First, to make sure you release the resource, make sure to wrap your code in a using block:

  Using Dim write As New System.IO.StreamWriter("ORDERS\" & TBFNAME.Text + "" + TBLNAME.Text & ".txt", False)
        write.WriteLine(TBFNAME.Text)
        write.WriteLine(TBLNAME.Text)
        write.WriteLine(TBEADD.Text)
        write.WriteLine(TBEADD2.Text)
        write.WriteLine(TBADDRESS.Text)
        write.WriteLine(TBCONTACT.Text)
  End Using

Additionally, you may want to see this thread: .NET Asynchronous stream read/write