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FileSystemWatcher Problems

Okay, so I'm getting a little confused at this. Why does the
FileSystemWatcher fire 2 events for everything? For instance, I'm
having it watch a file for when it is changed, and this event get's
fired twice. How do I stop that from happening?

Thanks,
Jody W

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Nov 21 '05 #1
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"Jody L. Whitlock" <ti*************@hotmail.com> schrieb:
Okay, so I'm getting a little confused at this. Why does the
FileSystemWatcher fire 2 events for everything? For instance, I'm
having it watch a file for when it is changed, and this event get's
fired twice. How do I stop that from happening?


This behavior is by design. Changes can consist of multiple changes even if
they appear to be a single change.

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

Nov 21 '05 #2

That's what the underlying API reports. When you use the API directly, it's
even messier - you have to test every single event to see if it's for the
file (template) you're interested in and then turn the API back on.

Mike.

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hi***************@gmx.at> wrote in message
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"Jody L. Whitlock" <ti*************@hotmail.com> schrieb:
Okay, so I'm getting a little confused at this. Why does the
FileSystemWatcher fire 2 events for everything? For instance, I'm
having it watch a file for when it is changed, and this event get's
fired twice. How do I stop that from happening?
This behavior is by design. Changes can consist of multiple changes even

if they appear to be a single change.

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>


Nov 21 '05 #3

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