Detecting whether external program created files/folders

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Hi all,

I'm building a windows form application (in C# 4.0) which starts an external program (via process.start etc.) Is there a way to detect whether this external program creates any files/folder, and if so where? I've looked into process.StandardOutput, but this doesn't seem to be it (unless ofcourse I'm doing it wrong...)

Any help would be appreciated

Posted 2-Nov-12 3:37am

pWouter

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Abhinav S · Answer 1 · 2012-11-02T03:39:00

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The FileSystemWatcher class[^] is perhaps what you are looking for.
Here[^] is a good article to help you get started.

Posted 2-Nov-12 3:39am

Abhinav S

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pWouter 2-Nov-12 10:17am

Thanks Abhinav S, thats quite a nice article. However, I can't know beforehand if the external program will produce files/folders, nor where it will create those. I don't really fancy watching my entire filesystem, also because I (or the user) then can't really work when it's running.
Ideally I'd have something that could watch the process to see if files of folders are created by that process.
Wouter

Akinmade Bond 3-Nov-12 13:15pm

Nope, If the 'external' program uses a dialog, the user can create a file/folders anywhere.