.NET SQLite database is locked

I got following exception when I tried to modify the SQLite database using Entity Framework

System.Data.Entity.Core.EntityException: System.Data.Entity.Core.EntityException: An error occurred while starting a transaction on the provider connection. See the inner exception for details. —> System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteException: database is locked
database is locked.

The code causing the problem is following (the orderDao and productDao is wrapper of Entity Framework to manipulate SQLite database)

orderDao.Add(new Order()
            {
                CreateTime = DateTime.Now,
                OrderId = DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyyMMddHHmmss"),
                ItemDetails = new List<ProductPurchase>()
                {
                    new ProductPurchase()
                    {
                        Amount = 2,
                        Product = productDao.Find(p => p.Title == "Milk").FirstOrDefault()
                    }
                }
            });

One common situation to cause this problem is that another application is accessing the same database.

In my situation it’s because that I opened the database with DB Browser for SQLite, deleted a database table and not applying the changes.

Clicking Write Changes (or Revert Changes or Close Database) and the error will be gone.

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