Comments on: Introduction To FileSystemWatcher

By: Tamilarasi

Tamilarasi — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:12:05 +0000

the article is very much useful. i am having one big question that
“Can we watch a folder available in FTP ? “

By: Vikram

Vikram — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:19:12 +0000

Is there anyway we can have two type of files being watched by a FSW e.g abc*.* and *.def

By: shahaji

shahaji — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:38:57 +0000

If the system file like ntldr or some files from temp foder that always change at that time can we avoid that perticular file or folder.have u solution for this

By: Jn-Michael

Jn-Michael — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:08:21 +0000

Is there a way I could have a little example about using WorkQueue or Generic List, just to put me on the track ^^

By: jfrankcarr

jfrankcarr — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:22:57 +0000

Bill, The way I'm doing this is to put a file on a generic Queue if it isn't already on the queue. Here's an example:

 Private Sub OnCreated(ByVal source As Object, ByVal e As FileSystemEventArgs)
        If Not WorkQueue.Contains(e.FullPath) Then
            WorkQueue.Enqueue(e.FullPath)
        End If
End Sub

By: jfrankcarr

jfrankcarr — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:18:56 +0000

J-Micharl,

The way I do this is to not use the controls collection at all. Instead I use a generic List of FileWatchers that I can create and remove as needed.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:46:37 +0000

“File actions may raise multiple events so you will need to take precautions against processing the same file multiple times.”

Yes. Yes. Yes. ….but how?

By: J-Micharl

J-Micharl — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:37:23 +0000

Hello ;) Little question for you.

Is there a way to dispose a FSW in a for each?
Example:
dim n as control
for each n in controls
if typeof(n) is filesystemwatcher then
if path = “path to delete” then n.dipose()
end if
next

When I try this code, I have an error :
It tells me that N (system.windows.forms.control) will never be the type of FileSystemWatcher.

Is there another method? :)
Thx