Asking a question about C# and a statistics UI

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Hi guys,

I am trying to generate statistics on C# winforms and the data is stored into a txt file.

How can i know when a new data has entered into this txt file? (To update the statistics)

it is practicle to do so ? maybe there are other ways which are easier?

What I have tried:

I cannot find anything on google maybe it is not practicle to do so ?

Posted 6-Aug-18 20:51pm

Joe Doe234

Updated 6-Aug-18 21:17pm

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Richard MacCutchan 7-Aug-18 3:06am

You cannot tell when a file has been updated unless you have a FileSystem watcher that can send a message to your application.

Joe Doe234 7-Aug-18 3:10am

how can i do that ? is there a type of tutorial or something .. sorry i'm still a student.

Pete O'Hanlon 7-Aug-18 3:28am

Search Google for FileSystemWatcher.

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2018-08-06T21:18:00

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See the documentation: FileSystemWatcher Class (System.IO)[^] - it includes example code.

Posted 6-Aug-18 21:18pm

OriginalGriff