Application #56. Receive File Notifications
Many applications use the file system to maintain information. You can instruct the Framework to notify you when various aspects of the file system change. For example, you can design your application to automatically reload a configuration file whenever that file is updated rather than wait for the next application launch to apply the changes. This is a very useful feature for server applications where restarting the program might not be an option.
Building Upon...Application #73: Read From and Write To a Text File |
New Concepts
The Framework contains a class in the System.IO namespace named FileSystem-Watcher. This class allows you to specify what aspects of the file system you want to monitor ...
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