Class PhysicalFilesWatcher

A file watcher that watches a physical filesystem for changes.

Triggers events on IChangeToken when files are created, change, renamed, or deleted.

public class PhysicalFilesWatcher : IDisposable

Inherited Members: object.ToString()

object.Equals(object)

object.Equals(object, object)

object.ReferenceEquals(object, object)

object.GetHashCode()

object.GetType()

object.MemberwiseClone()

Constructors

Initializes an instance of PhysicalFilesWatcher that watches files in root. Wraps an instance of FileSystemWatcher

public PhysicalFilesWatcher(string root, FileSystemWatcher fileSystemWatcher, bool pollForChanges)

root string: Root directory for the watcher
fileSystemWatcher FileSystemWatcher: The wrapped watcher that is watching root
pollForChanges bool: True when the watcher should use polling to trigger instances of IChangeToken created by CreateFileChangeToken(string)

Initializes an instance of PhysicalFilesWatcher that watches files in root. Wraps an instance of FileSystemWatcher

public PhysicalFilesWatcher(string root, FileSystemWatcher fileSystemWatcher, bool pollForChanges, ExclusionFilters filters)

root string: Root directory for the watcher
fileSystemWatcher FileSystemWatcher: The wrapped watcher that is watching root
pollForChanges bool: True when the watcher should use polling to trigger instances of IChangeToken created by CreateFileChangeToken(string)
filters ExclusionFilters: Specifies which files or directories are excluded. Notifications of changes to are not raised to these.

Creates an instance of IChangeToken for all files and directories that match the filter

Globbing patterns are relative to the root directory given in the constructor PhysicalFilesWatcher(string, FileSystemWatcher, bool). Globbing patterns are interpreted by Matcher.

public IChangeToken CreateFileChangeToken(string filter)

Disposes the file watcher

public void Dispose()