How to monitor specified folder size using WCF service-C#

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As Iam developing asp.net application.
I need to monitor

C:\Monitor

(folder)Total size using wcf service and alert when it reaches 1GB limit. It should be done in background process.

For example: I have set limit as 1GB. When

C:\Monitor

folder reaches near 800MB , I should provide me alert message. How it is possible in WCF Service or any other service, when hosting in IIS.

What I have tried:

I have googled so many stuff, Currently it doesn't match my requirement.

Posted 29-Jan-17 18:46pm

vinodh muthusamy

Updated 29-Jan-17 19:26pm

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Suvendu Shekhar Giri 30-Jan-17 0:49am

Not Clear!
Please spend some more time describing your problem clearly.
Also share what have you tried so far.

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Ashwin. Shetty · Answer 1 · 2017-01-29T18:57:00

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Any specific reason you are trying to achieve this using WCF. What I understand this can be achieved by Windows EXE or Windows Service. You can use filesystemwatcher and wait for event. On specific event check the size and trigger your rule. For reference you can check FileSystemWatcher.Changed Event (System.IO)[^]

Posted 29-Jan-17 18:57pm

Ashwin. Shetty

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vinodh muthusamy 30-Jan-17 1:06am

Iam working in web based application.

Link which you have shared is about create,changed,delete. But i need to monitor folder Size.

Ashwin. Shetty 30-Jan-17 1:12am

Web base app can only validate the size on request to a server. if you try to run it in the background it won't be reliable. IIS may also timeout and stop the execution thread. If I would be in your place I would have hosted WCF service inside Windows Service (Self-hosted) and expose WCF API which will take two parameters ( Folder to monitor & Email Id for an alert). Monitor folder which was received in the separate thread and alert user based on the threshold. This WCF service will be called internally from my website.

You are right link which I have shared is for create, change and delete file. Isnt that will resize your folder ??

vinodh muthusamy 30-Jan-17 1:39am

Suggestion which you have given me, matches exactly my requirement. Could you provide any sample code or link to watch.

Ashwin. Shetty 30-Jan-17 1:55am

It will be difficult to point you to complete code, but you may look for wcf self hosting. After validation from WCF service endpoint raise event which is registered by windows service internally. Register method to this event which will create a new thread and attach function which can carry out above task

Prafulla Hunde · Answer 2 · 2017-01-29T19:26:00

As suggested in Solution 1 you can try FileSystemWatcher. However in some cases this class is not reliable and you may miss events & its behavior is not consistent across all supported OSes(XP,Win7,Win10 etc). Moreover it can fire multiple change events for single save operation on one file. In our case we ended up using a timer which periodically scans folder for any change. I can not say it is best approach but at least it was more reliable and consistent than FileSystemWatcher. May be you can combine both of these to best suite to your needs. Good luck :-).