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Monitoring a text file with C#

nam.tran

I'd like to be able to 'monitor' a text file that gets constantly appended to by another application so that I can use the updated text from the text file in my C# application whenever it does get updated. Any suggestions on how to do this?

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alobiuc21y ago
Isn't that a quite lame post?
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holy_bins21y ago
woah, they made classes for everything...
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shimtanny21y ago
Hi Use the System.IO.FileSystemWatcher class. Simon
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holy_bins21y ago
My thoughts are either have a thread going in the background that checks it at some time interval, or find a way to get an event fired from the "other" application....or maybe see if an event already occurs that you can somehow catch, and there you go!
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