Question About an Event Hook

[needin4mation]

Hi, had a question about event hooks. I don't know that much about it
so please forgive me if I don't use all the right words. Is it
possible to use a hook that listens or watches a certain
directory/folder and when a new file is put into that directory take
some action.

I have a third party tool. It puts its log files in a directory on the
computer (XP Professional). I need some functionality the third party
does not provide. I can do this by reading the log files. The program
puts a new log file in for each transaction it completes, so what I
thought I could do is read the directory when a new file is put in the
directory and do whatever.

The only other thing I could think of was to use the task scheduler and
have my c# program do what I needed minus the event hook. It just
wouldn't be real time.

Thank you for any help or advice.

[Dale]

Check out the FileSystemWatcher class in .Net.
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Dale Preston
MCAD C#
MCSE, MCDBA
"ne***********@gmail.com" wrote:

Hi, had a question about event hooks. I don't know that much about it
so please forgive me if I don't use all the right words. Is it
possible to use a hook that listens or watches a certain
directory/folder and when a new file is put into that directory take
some action.

I have a third party tool. It puts its log files in a directory on the
computer (XP Professional). I need some functionality the third party
does not provide. I can do this by reading the log files. The program
puts a new log file in for each transaction it completes, so what I
thought I could do is read the directory when a new file is put in the
directory and do whatever.

The only other thing I could think of was to use the task scheduler and
have my c# program do what I needed minus the event hook. It just
wouldn't be real time.

Thank you for any help or advice.

[Chris]

ne***********@gmail.com wrote:

Hi, had a question about event hooks. I don't know that much about it
so please forgive me if I don't use all the right words. Is it
possible to use a hook that listens or watches a certain
directory/folder and when a new file is put into that directory take
some action.

I have a third party tool. It puts its log files in a directory on the
computer (XP Professional). I need some functionality the third party
does not provide. I can do this by reading the log files. The program
puts a new log file in for each transaction it completes, so what I
thought I could do is read the directory when a new file is put in the
directory and do whatever.

The only other thing I could think of was to use the task scheduler and
have my c# program do what I needed minus the event hook. It just
wouldn't be real time.

Thank you for any help or advice.

Research the FileSystemWatcher class. It should be able to provide the
"hooks" you're looking for.

Chris

[Stoitcho Goutsev \(100\)]

Hi

The component you are after is called FileSystemWatcher. It is declared in
System.IO namespace and can also be found as a WindowsFroms component in the
VS toolbox.

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HTH
Stoitcho Goutsev (100)

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Hi, had a question about event hooks. I don't know that much about it
so please forgive me if I don't use all the right words. Is it
possible to use a hook that listens or watches a certain
directory/folder and when a new file is put into that directory take
some action.

I have a third party tool. It puts its log files in a directory on the
computer (XP Professional). I need some functionality the third party
does not provide. I can do this by reading the log files. The program
puts a new log file in for each transaction it completes, so what I
thought I could do is read the directory when a new file is put in the
directory and do whatever.

The only other thing I could think of was to use the task scheduler and
have my c# program do what I needed minus the event hook. It just
wouldn't be real time.

Thank you for any help or advice.