FileSystemWatcher to execute .NET functions

Question

I am creating a quick temporary fix so sorry if this is dirty, but-

Objective

I would like to use Powershells Register-Event cmd to wait fo

Answer 1

The following worked for me (code mostly copied from here):

$folder = 'c:\Temp'
$filter = '*.*'

$monitor = New-Object IO.FileSystemWatcher $folder, $filter -Property @{
  IncludeSubdirectories = $false;
  NotifyFilter = [IO.NotifyFilters]'FileName, LastWrite'
}

Register-ObjectEvent $monitor Created -SourceIdentifier FileCreated -Action {
  $name = $Event.SourceEventArgs.FullPath
  $sr = New-Object System.IO.StreamReader($name)
  Write-Host $sr.ReadToEnd()
  $sr.Close()
}