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c#asp.netsharpziplib

Error in asp.net but application run smoothly

I got a error:

Error   1 Cannot copy assembly 'ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll' to file 'FileLocation\bin\ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll'.  
Unable to add 'FileLocation\bin\ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll' to the Web site.  
Unable to add file 'bin\ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll'.  
The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

Any idea about this?

Solution

  • This is an error you can get when you have a file that's still locked by a process; it sounds like the file was still open by something when you went to build,so it couldn't copy it to the website.

    As long as you aren't directly modifying the ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib source code, and since it's reporting it to already be in the location you need, it's possible that the development or IIS server just still had the file open, in which case it wouldn't be a big deal. (Did you close all browsers?) If that's the case, and your application is running fine, then it's probably not a huge deal, although I would probably close down the development server, and Visual Studio, then reopen and try again. (If running on IIS, try restarting the website.)

    If you start having issues with whatever part of your code uses the Zip functionality, then you will need to investigate further.