Determine if a file can be opened for reading and that it is not used by other processes

Hi Everyone,


I am trying to figure out a method to check if a file can be opened without raising exceptions by IO.File.ReadOpen()
Anyone has any ideas? File.Exists() return a bool value. It shoudl return or overlard so that a integer specifing the state is returned.



(I dont want to use a try...catch to accomplish that as it wont be right for the app I need to do this in)

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