FileSystem Watcher not working in win98

[Puneet Trehan]

Hi
i am using filesystemwatcher class in .net but that is not working in win98
& winNT.
Ifound that there are API like
FIndFirstChangeNotification & FindnextChangeNotification to get change
notification in win98 but it doesn't give the information that which file is
chnage & what is the change. I need this information necessiarlity.

I know in WinNT this problem is solved by using ReadDirectoryChangeW Api but
i need some generic solution for both Win98 & WinNT. Also i don't want to
take snapshot of the information before making changes as this is
performance degraded. Suggest me the way.

This is very urgent. So tell me the solution as soon as possible

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

hi,

AFAIK there is no way to solve this problem in w98, I had a similar issue
and could not found a solution, luckily the client upgraded to XP :)

what I did, was create a timer and check for the file I was expecting for.
it was not the best of the solution but it worked fine enough for me.

cheers,

--
Ignacio Machin,
ignacio.machin AT dot.state.fl.us
Florida Department Of Transportation

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Hi
i am using filesystemwatcher class in .net but that is not working in
win98
& winNT.
Ifound that there are API like
FIndFirstChangeNotification & FindnextChangeNotification to get change
notification in win98 but it doesn't give the information that which file
is
chnage & what is the change. I need this information necessiarlity.

I know in WinNT this problem is solved by using ReadDirectoryChangeW Api
but
i need some generic solution for both Win98 & WinNT. Also i don't want to
take snapshot of the information before making changes as this is
performance degraded. Suggest me the way.

This is very urgent. So tell me the solution as soon as possible