Is there a programmatic way to determine whether the file is being used?

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Published on 2010-05-06T00:05:28Z Indexed on 2010/05/06 0:08 UTC
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Case and point: I need to open an Excel file via Interop and it would help a lot to avoid ugly COM errors if I knew that the file was in use.

Other than trying to open the file and catching the exception, is there a programmatic way to determine whether the file is in use?

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