Hi,

I am writing a web service which contains a function that tries to
open up a FileStream.

When I try to do this I get the following error

"Access to the path "C:\Handheld\Images\1100314670.jpg" is denied"

I can do things like CopyFile so don't know how it can be a
permissions problem.  I only seem to have a problem with FileStream.

Any thoughts???

   <WebMethod(Description:="Get image")> _
   Public Function GetImage(ByVal i_code As String) As
Xml.XmlDocument

       Try
           Dim f1 As IO.File
           If Not f1.Exists("C:\Handheld\Images\1100314670.jpg") Then
               Return Nothing
           End If
           Dim F As System.IO.FileStream = New
System.IO.FileStream("C:\Handheld\Images\1100314670.jpg",
IO.FileMode.Open)
           Dim binRead As BinaryReader = New BinaryReader(F)

           Dim objXml As Xml.XmlTextWriter = New
Xml.XmlTextWriter("C:\Handheld\Test.xml", System.Text.Encoding.UTF8)

           objXml.WriteStartDocument()

           objXml.WriteStartElement("ct", "ContactDetails",
"http://10.0.0.196/Contact")
           objXml.WriteStartElement("image")
           objXml.WriteAttributeString("logo", "1100314670.jpg")

           Dim readByte As Integer = 0
           Dim bytesToRead As Integer = 100

           Dim base64Buffer(bytesToRead) As Byte

           Do
               readByte = binRead.Read(base64Buffer, 0, bytesToRead)
               objXml.WriteBase64(base64Buffer, 0, readByte)
           Loop While (bytesToRead <= readByte)

           objXml.WriteEndElement()

           objXml.WriteEndElement()

           objXml.WriteEndDocument()

           objXml.Flush()
           objXml.Close()

           Dim xd As Xml.XmlDocument
           xd.Load("C:\Handheld\Test.xml")

           Return xd

       Catch ex As Exception
           Return Nothing
           'MsgBox("Error in SharScanService." & vbNewLine &
ex.Message)
       End Try

   End Function