StreamReader.Close is leaving the process open

[seantuk]

i am having a problem using files in my c# aspx prog. take a look at the code snippet

ArrayList fcontents = new ArrayList();
{
  StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(filepath);
  while(sr.Peek() != -1) fcontents.Add(sr.ReadLine());
  sr.DiscardBufferedData();
  sr.Close();
  ((IDisposable)sr).Dispose();
}

filepath is a string containing the filepath. as you can see, i've done everything i can to release the file, but it's still open. i break the program after this by throwing an exception, so i can check the status of any processes on this file on my server, and 90% of the time it's still open.

i need to release this file so i can delete it a little further down my code. how can i do this? alternativly, how can i force a delete?

 

[RTomes]

if the file path is a network share then try copying the file locally and see if the same happens.