Find out which process is locking a DLL without extra tools

January 26, 2009   11:28

Today I got the “The process cannot access the file … because it is being used by another process” error again, during a development build. And as long as the DLL is locked, it’s not possible to do a successful build.

Most sites and tips on the internet suggest to download some tool to detect which process is using the DLL. It seems that not many people are aware that, since Windows XP, we don’t need to download (or even pay for) a tool to detect this.

Just launch the windows console and navigate to the directory of the DLL. Now type “tasklist.exe /m locked.dll” and it will show you exactly which processes have loaded and locked this DLL.

Happy unlocking

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SPUserPoll – SharePoint poll web part version 0.2 with charts released

January 17, 2009   19:59

Today I released version 0.2 of SPUserPoll at CodePlex which includes the brand new .NET 3.5 Chart control.

This poll web part for SharePoint gives you the ability to present the poll results with a colorful bar, column, pie or doughnut chart.

Enjoy the new version and feel free to provide me with wishes, comments, ideas and tips to improve SPUserPoll.

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