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    copied!<p>I am getting error as mentioned below:</p> <p><strong>The process cannot access file "E:\TempPDFs\Sample.pdf" because it is being used by another process</strong></p> <p>I happen to send the pdf from email and after email is sent i need to delete the Sample.pdf file. The code that i have written doesn't work</p> <pre><code>FileInfo DeleteFileInfo = new FileInfo(directoryPath + "\\" + filename + ".pdf"); if (DeleteFileInfo.Exists) File.Delete(directoryPath + "\\" + filename + ".pdf"); </code></pre> <p>here directorypath is E:\TempPDFs, filename is Sample</p> <p><strong>UPDATED:</strong> </p> <pre><code>public static void SendMail(string fromAddress, string[] toAddress, string[] ccAddress, string[] bccAddress, string subject, string messageBody, bool isBodyHtml, ArrayList attachments, string host, string username, string pwd, string port) { { try { if (isBodyHtml &amp;&amp; !htmlTaxExpression.IsMatch(messageBody)) isBodyHtml = false; // Create the mail message MailMessage objMailMsg; objMailMsg = new MailMessage(); if (toAddress != null) { foreach (string toAddr in toAddress) objMailMsg.To.Add(new MailAddress(toAddr)); } if (ccAddress != null) { foreach (string ccAddr in ccAddress) objMailMsg.CC.Add(new MailAddress(ccAddr)); } if (bccAddress != null) { foreach (string bccAddr in bccAddress) objMailMsg.Bcc.Add(new MailAddress(bccAddr)); } if (fromAddress != null &amp;&amp; fromAddress.Trim().Length &gt; 0) { //if (fromAddress != null &amp;&amp; fromName.trim().length &gt; 0) // objMailMsg.From = new MailAddress(fromAddress, fromName); //else objMailMsg.From = new MailAddress(fromAddress); } objMailMsg.BodyEncoding = Encoding.UTF8; objMailMsg.Subject = subject; objMailMsg.Body = messageBody; objMailMsg.IsBodyHtml = isBodyHtml; if (attachments != null) { foreach (string fileName in attachments) { if (fileName.Trim().Length &gt; 0 &amp;&amp; File.Exists(fileName)) objMailMsg.Attachments.Add(new Attachment(fileName)); } } //prepare to send mail via SMTP transport SmtpClient objSMTPClient = new SmtpClient(); if (objSMTPClient.Credentials != null) { } else { objSMTPClient.UseDefaultCredentials = false; NetworkCredential SMTPUserInfo = new NetworkCredential(username, pwd); objSMTPClient.Host = host; objSMTPClient.Port = Int16.Parse(port); //objSMTPClient.UseDefaultCredentials = false; objSMTPClient.Credentials = SMTPUserInfo; //objSMTPClient.EnableSsl = true; //objSMTPClient.DeliveryMethod = SmtpDeliveryMethod.Network; } //objSMTPClient.Host = stmpservername; //objSMTPClient.Credentials //System.Net.Configuration.MailSettingsSectionGroup mMailsettings = null; //string mailHost = mMailsettings.Smtp.Network.Host; try { objSMTPClient.Send(objMailMsg); } catch (SmtpException smtpEx) { if (smtpEx.Message.Contains("secure connection")) { objSMTPClient.EnableSsl = true; objSMTPClient.Send(objMailMsg); } } } } } </code></pre> <p>let me know if any query</p> <p>Thanks!</p>
 

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