Closing Open Files using C#
c#, wmi
Solution
It would be difficult to consider all the ramifications of doing this because you can't necessarily predict the resulting behavior of the application that currently has the file locked.
Is there some other way to do this? For example do you have to overwrite the file right away, or can you have some external process that continually tries to overwrite the file every few minutes until it succeeds?
Problem
I have a situation where people are connected to files on a share and it's blocking me from overwriting the file. I'm trying to write a method that will look to see if a filePath that I provide is currently locked in this way and close the network session of this resource. I looked at the ADSI Winnt provider but the Resources.Remove member isn't implemented. Then I looked at Win32_ServerSession and while I am able to use Delete member, it kills all of the resources for a given user. I need to figure out how to be more specific. I've been walking GetRelationsShips and Properties but I'm just stumped at the moment.