Question

I’m automating a process and already made a powershell script for that. Now I need to make something which will call that script everytime a new folder has been added to a specific location i.e. a new build is dropped.
What should I use for this. Is WCF too much? And if not, got any leads for that? Any useful links.
Or is another powershell script better for that?

Keep in mind I need to check subfolders too.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Personnaly I’ld use System.IO.FileSystemWatcher

$folder = 'c:\myfoldertowatch'
$filter = '*.*'                             
$fsw = New-Object IO.FileSystemWatcher $folder, $filter 
$fsw.IncludeSubdirectories = $true              
$fsw.NotifyFilter = [IO.NotifyFilters]'DirectoryName' # just notify directory name events
$onCreated = Register-ObjectEvent $fsw Created -SourceIdentifier FileCreated -Action {  ... do my stuff here } # and only when is created

Use this to stop watching event

Unregister-Event -SourceIdentifier FileCreated