What program type is efficient to pickup the file in folder --- need an idea

Question

Hi My flow is like this 1. Another program will place a file in a folder at any time (the time is not fixed) 2. My program will pickup this file from the folder and read a content What is the best program type in C# (winforms with interval? windows service? etc??) to handle this file after place by another program? Need opinion.

Vimal Kandasamy · Answer

I feel windows service will do this perfectly.If it is a sequence of simple & perfect operations means then windows service is enough. But If you want user to control some operations or give & change some inputs means Windows Forms will be the better one.