Tell me more ×  This is probably a really simple thing, but I
haven't been able to find it, and I'm probably just searching
for the wrong thing...  XmlTextReader --> Does it lock the file
you're reading? I'm using reader.Read() and that's about it.
share|improve this question add comment  1 Answer  up vote 13
down vote accepted  When you create a new XmlTextReader
providing a string, it will lock the file with a write lock (but
not a read lock); however, if you provide it a Stream, it would
depend on the stream itself.  FileStream stream = new
FileStream(@"myfile.xml", FileMode.Open,
FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite); XmlTextReader reader =
new XmlTextReader(stream);  You can now read without having a
lock.  share|improve this answer +1 beat me to the answer. Can
also do FileStream stream = File.Open(...) –  Michael Meadows
Mar 26 '09 at 15:18 Yeah, same difference. One probably calls
the other (which I don't know, but you could find out with
Reflector.) –  Samuel Mar 26 '09 a