"locked by another application" problem

[Ing. Rajesh Kumar]

I am loading an XML File and validating that against an XSD file. Sometimes
when there is an error in the XML file, system locks the file and I am not
able to change the content of the file. When saving, It says that the file
may have been "locked by another application". Now i cannot fix the error
because i cannot save the changes. Probably the file get locks by
aspnet_wp.exe. How can I fix this ? I tried to load the file as readonly but
does not help.
Thanks in advance
Raja

 

[Scott Allen]

In development you could go to the command line and run IISRESET.

If you need to track down which process actually has the file locked,
you can use FileMon from sysinternals:
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/filemon.shtml

HTH,