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Use case: 3rd party application wants to programatically monitor a text file being generated by another program. Text file contains data you want to analyze as it’s being updated.
I’m finding a lot of answers to this question wrapped around FileSystemWatcher but let’s say you are writing an application for a Windows machine and can’t guarantee .NET is installed.
Are there any libraries out there available for this, or am I just going to have to roll my own solution then?
Thanks.
You can monitor a directory with FindFirstChangeNotification works on any windows.
It’s efficent if you know where the file is – otherwise you can use the virtual driver/Filemon described below to check for changes anywhere on the system.
Example code here