Monitoring a text file with C#

Question

I'd like to be able to 'monitor' a text file that gets constantly appended to by another application so that I can use the updated text from the text file in my C# application whenever it does get updated. Any suggestions on how to do this?

alobiuc · Answer

Isn't that a quite lame post?

holy_bins · Answer

woah they made classes for everything...

shimtanny · Answer

Hi Use the System.IO.FileSystemWatcher class. Simon

holy_bins · Answer

My thoughts are either have a thread going in the background that checks it at some time interval or find a way to get an event fired from the other application....or maybe see if an event already occurs that you can somehow catch and there you go!