I have an application where I am looking for a text file and if there are any changes made to the file I am using the OnChanged
eventhandler to handle the event
In my case need to get the last line of a text file that is inserted by other application, as soon as insertion is done. Here is my solution. When the first event is raised, i disable the watcher from raising others, then i call the timer TimeElapsedEvent because when my handle function OnChanged is called i need the size of the text file, but the size at that time is not the actual size, it is the size of the file imediatelly before the insertion. So i wait for a while to proceed with the right file size.
private FileSystemWatcher watcher = new FileSystemWatcher();
...
watcher.Path = "E:\\data";
watcher.NotifyFilter = NotifyFilters.LastWrite ;
watcher.Filter = "data.txt";
watcher.Changed += new FileSystemEventHandler(OnChanged);
watcher.EnableRaisingEvents = true;
...
private void OnChanged(object source, FileSystemEventArgs e)
{
System.Timers.Timer t = new System.Timers.Timer();
try
{
watcher.Changed -= new FileSystemEventHandler(OnChanged);
watcher.EnableRaisingEvents = false;
t.Interval = 500;
t.Elapsed += (sender, args) => t_Elapsed(sender, e);
t.Start();
}
catch(Exception ex) {
;
}
}
private void t_Elapsed(object sender, FileSystemEventArgs e)
{
((System.Timers.Timer)sender).Stop();
//.. Do you stuff HERE ..
watcher.Changed += new FileSystemEventHandler(OnChanged);
watcher.EnableRaisingEvents = true;
}