[RESOLVED] Attach Files to an E-Mail and Delete them

Hi all,

I am having a hard time deleting some files that I am attaching to an E-mail. After I send them, I want to archive them and delete them. The archive goes fine, but as soon as I try to delete them, I get an error stating "The file is in use by another process". I already tried by clearing the array I use to attach the files, but it does not help. This is what I am doing.

1. Create an array of file names within the directory and send it to a class, which is responsible for sending the E-mail with the attachments.

2. After the E-mail is sent, control is sent to the main code and I loop trhough the array to archive and delete the files.


Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

You need to close the file. Streams are IDisposable, so call Dispose() immediately you don't need them more, or use using statement over it.

boudino,

Thanks for your reply.

This is where I am calling the class.

SendEmail.SendMessage(sendTo, " ", emsubject,files);

files is the array of files.

And this is where I am adding the files to the attachments.

foreach (string file in filesToattach)
{
message.Attachments.Add(new Attachment(file));

}

Where and how should I use the Dispose()?

Thanks.

Call it on each item in files.

boudino,

I tried your suggestion, but I still get the error.

Could you provide some sample code?

Thanks.

Found the solution.

The message has to be disposed. In other words, after sending the message, call the dispose.

client.Send(message);

message.dispose();

Hope this helps somebody.