Keeping a text file synchronous to my app...

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Hey, I'm developing a basic app.. Which requires a text file to be kept synchronous with it..If any changes made in text file should be updated in my App.. I don't where to start... Any help or suggestions???
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Posted 11-Oct-12 19:30pm

Sharath2790

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Santhosh G_ · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-11T19:50:00

ReadDirectoryChangesW() can be used to observe the changes in a directory.

http://weseetips.com/2008/06/11/how-to-get-the-filedirectory-change-notifications/[^]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365465%28v=vs.85%29.aspx[^]

Please create a thread to observe the changes for the directory which have text file. If the changed file(FileName of FILE_NOTIFY_INFORMATION) is your text file, then notify your dialog to read data from text file. This way you can synchronize the text file with your application.