> Jos Roijakkers wrote:
>
>> At some point in my application I load an image into a picturebox
>> with the code:
>>
>> pbGraphic.Image = Image.FromFile("picture.jpg")
>>
>> Later on in the program I want to rename the file using the code:
>>
>> pbGraphic.Image = Nothing
>> My.Computer.FileSystem.RenameFile("picture.jpg","newname.jpg")
>> but I get an IOException: "The process cannot access the file because
>> it is being used by another process."
>> Why is the original file still locked and what can I do to unlock it?
> You have to tell it you've really, really finished with it using
> .Dispose():-
>
> pbGraphic.Image = Nothing
> pbGraphic.Dispose()
> My.Computer.FileSystem.RenameFile("picture.jpg","newname.jpg")
> And I'm fairly sure you should be giving the full path for the
> original and new names in the RenameFile().
>
> Andrew
>

>> Jos Roijakkers wrote:
>>
>>> At some point in my application I load an image into a picturebox
>>> with the code:
>>>
>>> pbGraphic.Image = Image.FromFile("picture.jpg")
>>>
>>> Later on in the program I want to rename the file using the code:
>>>
>>> pbGraphic.Image = Nothing
>>> My.Computer.FileSystem.RenameFile("picture.jpg","newname.jpg")
>>> but I get an IOException: "The process cannot access the file
>>> because it is being used by another process."
>>> Why is the original file still locked and what can I do to unlock
>>> it?
>> You have to tell it you've really, really finished with it using
>> .Dispose():-
>>
>> pbGraphic.Image = Nothing
>> pbGraphic.Dispose()
>> My.Computer.FileSystem.RenameFile("picture.jpg","newname.jpg")
>> And I'm fairly sure you should be giving the full path for the
>> original and new names in the RenameFile().

>>> Jos Roijakkers wrote:
>>>
>>>> At some point in my application I load an image into a picturebox
>>>> with the code:
>>>>
>>>> pbGraphic.Image = Image.FromFile("picture.jpg")
>>>>
>>>> Later on in the program I want to rename the file using the code:
>>>>
>>>> pbGraphic.Image = Nothing
>>>> My.Computer.FileSystem.RenameFile("picture.jpg","newname.jpg")
>>>> but I get an IOException: "The process cannot access the file
>>>> because it is being used by another process."
>>>> Why is the original file still locked and what can I do to unlock
>>>> it?
>>> You have to tell it you've really, really finished with it using
>>> .Dispose():-
>>>
>>> pbGraphic.Image = Nothing
>>> pbGraphic.Dispose()
>>> My.Computer.FileSystem.RenameFile("picture.jpg","newname.jpg")
>>> And I'm fairly sure you should be giving the full path for the
>>> original and new names in the RenameFile().
> Jos Roijakkers wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately, adding Dispose() makes no difference.
>>
> If you use a program like Unlocker (http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/)
> you can see which other process has the file open. I had a problem
> once with a source control program obtaining a handle to text files in
> the same directory as the app.
>
>> Re the filenames: the original name should be given with a full path,
>> the new name should not have the full path.
>>
> I only have .NET 1.1 here, so I don't have the 2.0 docs to hand.
> What happens if you use the VB Rename function? Or
> System.IO.File.Move?
> (nothing different, at a guess).
> Andrew
>

> "Jos Roijakkers" <j.roijakk***@qred-it.nl> schrieb:
>
>> pbGraphic.Image = Image.FromFile("picture.jpg")
>>
>> Later on in the program I want to rename the file using the code:
>>
>> pbGraphic.Image = Nothing
>> My.Computer.FileSystem.RenameFile("picture.jpg","newname.jpg")
>> but I get an IOException: "The process cannot access the file because
>> it is being used by another process."
>>
> <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/code/graphics/#ImageNoLock>
>