How to monitor Fileaccess in C#

Question

i want to detect changes in filesystem for a special directory and i heard that is possible to monitor the file-access. Can anyone tell me how to monitor a directory for example in C#.NET?

THX Rene

Answer 1

You need the FileSystemWatcher .

Full documentation on MSDN is here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.filesystemwatcher.aspx

Answer 2

There is a FileSystemWatcher class .

As far as I know this does not work on Novell Network shares (at least the last time I tried it, some years ago).