Powershell Release file - powershell

Question

I understand that Powershell does not release a file until the script has exited. In my scripting I am writing to a new file as this:
[System.IO.File]::WriteAllText("E:\Outline\newLocations.xml", $locationsContent)
How can I release this file so I can read later in the script?

Answer 1

The WriteAllText method does not lock the file. Here's an example of creating a new text file, writing to it using that method, then reading from it, then deleting it. You can test this as well by creating a file, writing to it, then PowerShell still open try deleting it from Windows Explorer. Classes will have generally have a Dispose method, if you need to release the instance.
New-Item "C:\temp\newLocations.txt" -ItemType File
Directory: C:\temp
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
-a---- 1/11/2017 12:16 PM 0 newLocations.txt
[System.IO.File]::WriteAllText("C:\temp\newLocations.txt", "test")
Get-Content "C:\temp\newLocations.txt"
test
Remove-Item "C:\temp\newLocations.txt"
get-item "C:\temp\newLocations.txt"
get-item : Cannot find path 'C:\temp\newLocations.txt' because it does not exist.