Why are FileSystemWatcher Attribute changes detected on Windows 7 but not Windows 8?

Question

I have some code that uses FileSystemWatcher to monitor file changes outside of my application.

On Windows 7, using .NET 4, the below code would detect when a file

Answer 1

FileSystemWatcher is notoriously unreliable. Try subscribing to all the events and see if the others fire. One thing that you could try is to use a timer to examine the file for changes at regular intervals, say once every two seconds, instead of using FileSystemWatcher.