I need to stop and start the filesystemwatcher at regular intervals

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I am totally new to C#,,,, I need to start and stop the filesystemwatcher at regular intervals any one please suggest me a way how to stop and start. For example if customer selects 5 min it need's to stop and start every 5min's. As well as it need's to run on a different thread.

Posted 22-Jun-15 19:09pm

Vijay533

Updated 22-Jun-15 19:12pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 23-Jun-15 2:02am

Why? It sounds line a possible technology abuse to me. How could it possibly be used?
Also, remember that there is not such thing as 100% guarantee of perfectly regular intervals. It can only be done with some limited accuracy with certain probability. You are not dealing with a real-time system...
—SA

Arkadeep De 23-Jun-15 2:03am

this may help you.
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/58740/FileSystemWatcher-Pure-Chaos-Part-of
have a look

Sinisa Hajnal 23-Jun-15 2:36am

File watcher reacts to file system events such as copying, size change etc...why do you need stopping it? If you have to do it, use timers...but it will of course be dependant on computer restarts, service restarts, etc...you cannot guarantee precision.

ZurdoDev 23-Jun-15 8:37am

Use a timer.

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SteveHolle · Answer 1 · 2015-06-25T07:02:00

If you are working across a network to a directory with lot's of activity filewatcher can cause heavy network traffic. I've been working on a polled filewatcher that is run from within a timer tick, allowing you to determine the check interval. I maintain a list of files and timestamps in the specified directory. On the next tick I compare the new list to the previous. If a file is missing from the new list it was deleted, if there is a file in the new list that was not in the old list it was added, and if the file timestamp is different the file was changed. For my application I find that a 15 minute interval is sufficient.