How to open a file when it is being writted.

[raulbolanos]

Im constantly saving in one file but it takes a while to finish the process and I want to check sometimes how is everything going in this file, but it does not allow me to take a look because its being used at the moment. I heard, that there is not problem if I open the file with notepad, even thought I still get a message like this; The Process cannot access the file because it is being used by the process.

Here is an example code, tell me if the IO functions are wrong, if should I use other functions.

using System;
using System.Threading;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using IO = System.IO;

public class Test
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        int count = 0;

        while (true)
        {
            IO.FileStream fs = null;
            IO.BinaryWriter bw = null;
            System.Text.ASCIIEncoding enc = new System.Text.ASCIIEncoding();

            string path = "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Administrator\\Desktop\\Test.tab";
            fs = IO.File.Create(path);
            bw = new System.IO.BinaryWriter(fs);

            Console.WriteLine("{0} second", count);
            Thread.Sleep(1000);
            bw.Write(count);
            bw.Close();
            count++;
        }
    }
}

Thank you.