Question

I have a doubt using FileSystemWatcher in C#.
I need to be notified when a file is created in a specified folder, but the problem is if I create multiple files at the same time multiple events are beeing fired and I need that the code only continues if the previous file was processed and not process multiple files at the same time.

Any clue how to do that?

Many thanks

Answer 1

pseudo-code:

bool wasLastObjectProcessed = true

function onFileWatcherCreateFile
    lock wasLastObjectProcessed
        if wasLastObjectProcessed and processFile(file)
            #do some code here that you need to do if it is processed
        else
           wasLastObjectProcessed = false
        endif
    endlock
endfunction