Easiest way to read text file which is locked by another application

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I've been using File.ReadAllText() to open a CSV file, but every time I forget to close the file in Excel, the application throws an exception because it can't get access to the file.

(Seems crazy to me, I mean the READ in ReadAllText seems pretty clear)

I know that there is File.Open with all the bells and whistles, but is there an 'intermediate' method which doesn't involve messing around with buffers and char arrays?

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