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Shane
Shane

Reputation: 361

Can't open IIS w3c log vb.net

I have been writing an app in vb.net to copy the last few lines of an IIS W3C log file every few minusts to A file that will be used for some remote reporting.

The Code:

Dim linex = ""
Dim Line = ""

    '### IT ERROS OUT ON THE NEXT LINE ###
Using sr As New StreamReader("C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles\W3SVC14\u_ex130702.log")

    Do Until sr.EndOfStream
        linex = sr.ReadLine()                
         line = line & linex & vbCrLf           
    Loop

End Using

Upvotes: 1

Views: 411

Answers (1)

Alexei Levenkov
Alexei Levenkov

Reputation: 100547

You need to specify correct sharing options and open mode when creating underlying FileStream. Since there is no constructor of StreamReader that passes all necessary arguments you need to construct FileStream first using FileStream(String, FileMode, FileAccess, FileShare) and than create StreamReader on it using SrteamReader(Stream).

I think following should open IIS log file while it is being written to by IIS (if not - try other combinations of flags)

Using stream As New  New FileStream( _
 "Test#@@#.dat", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite)
   Using sr As New StreamReader(stream)

Upvotes: 1

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