[Nicezia]

Nicezia, I've added you on gtalk. Request from plyoung will be me.

I found some IO errors which seems to be comming from the logging stuff, but I'm still investigating this. Seems like LogFileInfo.Create(); can keep FileStream LogFile = new FileStream(LogFilePath, FileMode.Append); from opening the file in some cases.

[edit] Did moretesting and here is what I found.
The error message is "The process cannot access the file 'C:\Work\xMM\xMM\bin\Debug\test.log' because it is being used by another process." which happens on FileStream LogFile = new FileStream(testfile, FileMode.Append);

From this it might happend that this exception will be thrown when you try to write to the log after a call to VerifyLogFile(...)

Code:

private void test1()
{
    string testfile = Application.StartupPath + Path.DirectorySeparatorChar.ToString() + "test.log";
    //try
    {
        FileInfo LogFileInfo = new FileInfo(testfile);
        LogFileInfo.Create();
    }
    //catch { }
}

private void test2()
{
    string testfile = Application.StartupPath + Path.DirectorySeparatorChar.ToString() + "test.log";
    //try
    {
        FileStream LogFile = new FileStream(testfile, FileMode.Append);
        StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(LogFile);
        sw.WriteLine("{0} : {1}", DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy/MM/dd - HH:mm:ss"), "test");
        sw.Close();
        LogFile.Close();
    }
    //catch { }
}

private void MainForm_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    test1();
    test2();
...

[edit2] Rather than using

Code:

FileInfo LogFileInfo = new FileInfo(testfile);
LogFileInfo.Create();

to create the file, use this. Seems to work. I'd still add the try catch block just incase.

Code:

FileStream f = File.Create(testfile);
f.Close();

But I don't think this code is even needed since FileStream LogFile = new FileStream(testfile, FileMode.Append); seems to create the file if it does not exist.

VerifyLogfile will create the logfile if it doesn't exist, no need to call a create on the file. Calling a create seems to leave the file open if not specifically closed. If you want to create the file yourself, be sure to close the file so its available for open by other processes

or maybe i don't understand exactley what it is you're saying

I'm working on learning more about events so that programs can use thier own logging functions and just retrieve log info from the scraper.