VS 2008 File Watcher - Watch The Whole Drive?
Jul 12, 2010Does the File Watcher class in VB.NET only watch one folder? Or can I have it notify me of any change in the whole drive?
View 4 RepliesDoes the File Watcher class in VB.NET only watch one folder? Or can I have it notify me of any change in the whole drive?
View 4 RepliesI have found a few examples of this. basically instead of it watching only one folder, how would I have it watch any folder that's not named system32? I know I would need something similar to this:
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What exactly does a System File Watcher do? And what can you do with it?
View 10 RepliesI am developing an application that Monitors a specific folder for file changes such as modify deletion, update, etc. The only problem I have is , the application doesn't fire up File events.
Here is the code:
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Diagnostics
Public Class Form1
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I am trying to make a handle for a custom control I made. The user control consists of many additional controls within.I am using this code to add the user control to my Form.
Dim ToolBox As New ToolboxPanel
It's created and works fine.
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I have downloaded 5 apps so far to get an idea on watching a dir for a file created, but every app i run i get an error like this
View 7 RepliesI created a VB.NET 4.0 program that uses the FileSystemWatcher class to monitor a file for changes. I have one user who is on a Mac running a Windows virtualization. Here is her description of her setup (p.s. Revit is not my program, mine is suplementary to Revit and works with the keynote file mentioned):
I work on an iMac (Snow Leopard,) and have Revit 2012 installed in a Boot Camp partition of Windows 7, which I then run through a Parallels 6 window. I used to run Revit just through Parallels, sans Boot Camp, but this seems to work better (faster.) I do store my Revit files in the Mac OS, but the keynote file is in Windows 7. Obviously this is a non-standard setup, but it is causing the FileSystemWatcher to fail. Is anyone familiar with this or know why it's failing or if it can be fixed?
I am using FileSystemWatcher in order renaming files within a Watched directory.The problem occurs if the number of files copied simultaneously to the watched directory exceeds the number of 50...The rename event is fired successfully for the first 50 files, but after that nothing happens?
View 1 RepliesI need to write a small program that monitors a group of file directories for files being written to them and them move them as quickly as possible to a different process directory.I was very happy to find FileSystemWatcher in .NET. The event fires immediately. Unfortunately it fires when the very frist byte hits the directory.I'm using the following event:[code]My problem with this is, I am following up with code to move this file and if the file is big enough I will get the error:"process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process".That make sense to me but I'm struggling with finding a "file complete" event or some other programmatic indication that the file has completly arrived and can be "moved".I don't want to set an arbitrary timer.These files are on their way to a printer and I don't want to stick delays in a process that the users will notice and complain about.
View 1 RepliesI am using standalone application vb.net(2.0) and using filesysystem watcher class to find any new xml coming into that specified directory then application take that file and continue the process but the direcotry have been located in network machine. Now my problem is, once the path is not available it mean the shared path server going to offline, then my application not intimate me.
View 2 RepliesHere is my stuck in a rut kind deal.I am using Visual Basic Express Editoin 2008. (Most of these forums and samples and stuff is either C# VB 2005). I just want to simply know how I can "View or Monitor" the access.log file that is on my server?
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I have created a file watcher but I have a problem with the file watcher.here is the
vb.net
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form
Private watchfolder As IO.FileSystemWatcher[code]....
And I have the Following error
InvalidOperationException
"Cross-thread operation not valid: Control 'txtmonitor' accessed from a thread other than the thread it was create on."
i have done this a couple of years ago but i completely forget how i did it. I want a means of searching every file whether it be in sub folders, or sub folders of the sub folders and comparing the attributes of the file.
In other words, my program will search every file on the computer. For each file that it searches my program will attempt to io.file.readalltext etc.. the file. If the contents eqaul "....." then actions will hapen. If the file is greater then a certain size then actions will happen etc...
I want to see the attributes of each searched file, i will be using Dim FI as new FileInfo().
So how do i search each file in a directory? and all directories in the directory and so on?
I open a text file with notepad, so the user can see his contents, but if he changes the file, and save it, I would need to update a form.There is a way to watch for file updates?
View 2 RepliesWe can watch the file action by FileSystemWatcher but it give us to only create,rename,delete or replace action report, can we get file access action ? for example when user double click any file? or when run any application?
View 8 RepliesI wrote a program that can kinda of read Docx files. I can extract the text of the file and the metadata that word puts in the file not the stuff you see when you write click and go to properties. I Can extract and view that data I'm working on making the subroutine (i don't know if its an algorithm there is no math.Anyway I want this to be a forensic program where it will scan the whole hard drive and add all the docx files to a listbox. I found this code
Dim file_names As ReadOnlyCollection(Of String)
Dim directory As String = "c:"
Dim searchFor As String = "windows"
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but some folders that where hidden like $inplace they were left over from my windows 7 upgrade. they cause it to crash. is there anyway to be able to scan every folder on the PC. I tried launching the complied .exe by right clicking and hitting run as admin but it still crashed when i executed that code.
I am attempting to use the VB.Net FileSystemWatcher class to watch a folder for the creation of Excel files.I do get a response when a .xls file is created in the folder, but am having a problem with the below code:
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In c# winforms application, I want to choose a directory from network and after that, when any body put a file in it, I want to see a message such as "A file added."
View 1 RepliesI m trying to move all my drive's files into h drive firstly i have added all drives in threadpool for scanning and when scanning of any drive finish (Without waiting for other drive's complete ) it will move file's to h drive but it is not working as i wanted that's why i need two threadpool - one threadpool for scanning files and second threadpool for moving file's into drive's
View 11 RepliesI Want to filter a file using filesystem watcher. In that, I want to filter more than one type. Let it be, *.exe, *.java..
View 2 RepliesI was using the following code to check the file size of a data file on my local machine. Now the data files have been moved to a mapped network drive and this code no longer works. What do I need to change or how do I access file size on a mapped drive?
Dim MyFile As New FileInfo(MyFilePath)
Dim FileSize As Long = MyFile.Length
I'm running the following WMI script to get the associations between drive letters and physical drives on the system, but for some reason it omits CDROMs/DVD-ROMs. Can someone tell me how to get those as well?
Code:
ComputerName = "."
Set wmiServices = GetObject _
("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=Impersonate}!//" & ComputerName)
Set wmiDiskDrives = wmiServices.ExecQuery _
("SELECT DeviceID FROM Win32_DiskDrive")
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How to create a windows registry watcher application using .Net,I want this application to watch all the registry hocks and fire an event when a value change, this event will tell the old and new value for that value.
View 3 Replieshow can i watch multiple directories with the filesystem watcher at the same time?
I am making a backup program that detects changes in certian folders and backs up the change
If it is not worth it, it is not fun - you say programmers are boring but i say they are worth it.
There is a Folder where our client downloads the ".BCH" files on a daily basis. I want to be notified via the E-mail once there is a new file downloaded. I am using a Folder Watcher to accomplish this. Here is the code:
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I'm trying to detect the insertion of a USB-Serial COM port device. I found an example that shows how to detect a new USB device - and that part is now working well in my project. The question is, how do I pass on that event back to my Form1 class? In the example, I can create a MsgBox just fine, but if I try to manipulate any of the controls on my form, or raise a user-defined event, I get this message: 'System.InvalidOperationException' occurred in System.Windows.Forms.dll
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I have a program that allows the user to enter a drive letter into a text box. The program then takes the letter and find the physical drive number (i.e. deviceharddisk3..). It then stripes out everything and leaves me with the number 3.
In VB6 I used mDrive.bas from vbAccelerator.com and it worked perfectly. I have been all over the internet and back and cannot find a solution written in VB.NET.
I want to make a tool that will assign a USB pen drive a drive letter, I am using WMI to acknowledge the device being plugged in, I can pull the deviceID, name, etc now I just need to work out how to assign the device to a drive and I just cant figure it out
View 4 RepliesThe drive is connected via USB and the problem I'm having is that, periodically, while my code is executing, the usb drive seems to disconnect and reconnect. (Nothing to do with the program, but the drive itself).I want to find a way to prevent these temporary drive reconnects from interrupting my code. IE, i want to insure that whatever read or write that is requested is actually executed even in the case of a temporary drive interruption.
View 1 RepliesDoes anyone know if there is a way to determine if a drive is local or a network drive?
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