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FileStream.Unlock Method

Allows access by other processes to all or part of a file that was previously locked.

Namespace:  System.IO
Assembly:  mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
public virtual void Unlock(
	long position,
	long length
)

Parameters

position
Type: System.Int64

The beginning of the range to unlock.

length
Type: System.Int64

The range to be unlocked.

ExceptionCondition
ArgumentOutOfRangeException

position or length is negative.

For a list of common file and directory operations, see Common I/O Tasks.

The following example shows how to write text to a file by using the Unlock method.

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;

namespace ConsoleApplication
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string fileName = "test.txt";
            string textToAdd = "New text to write to file";

            UnicodeEncoding uniencoding = new UnicodeEncoding();

            byte[] result = uniencoding.GetBytes(textToAdd);

            using (FileStream destinationStream = File.Open(fileName, FileMode.OpenOrCreate))
            {
                destinationStream.Write(result, 0, result.Length);
            }
        }
    }
}

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4.5, 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0

.NET Framework Client Profile

Supported in: 4, 3.5 SP1

Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core Role not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

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