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New version includes directory polling and file watcher recycling. These features provide more reliability when working with networked and local drives. Polling can be used in combination with traditonal event based file system changed detection.

File Watcher Utiliites are File system/directory monitoring utilities with loggin and task processing support (can execute files or make a WCF service call). Multiple configuration options. Source code libraries can be used to create a custom file system monitor.

New Windows service based file watcher is released.

• File Watcher Windows Service (1.1.0.0) (fwws)

File Watcher Console and File Watcher Simple changes:... read more

File Watcher Utiliites are File system/directory monitoring utilities with loggin and task processing support (can execute files or make a WCF service call). Multiple configuration options. Source code libraries can be used to create a custom file system monitor.

File Watcher Simple and File Watcher Console changes.

• WCF streaming service
• WCF fault contract
• Rename files before processing them
• XML Schema changes
• Minor fixes

Invalid WCF service end point configuration name no longer causes application to behave badly. Instead you get an error message.

• Requires .NET Framework 3.0.
• LGPLed WCF contract for extensibility.

• Early beta that can call WCF service.
• Source code only.

See change log for more details. fwxml class library is part of the File Watcher Utilities source package.

• Saves application options (fws).
• Some other fixes.

• Schema changes.
• New features for handling file locking.
• fwxml can be found in FileWatcherUtilties-packakes.

Project web site have been removed. Wiki is in use now and it is open to everybody to write about the software.

• Many updates, including batch size. See fwc_2.6.0.0 notes for details for more.
• FileWatcherUtilities is a new project to hold the source code.

• Supports new features.
• Build with fwxml_1.8.1.0.
• See change log.

• fwc now works with fwxml_1.8.1.0.
• Supports generating file system events.
• Fixed threading issues.

• Support for generating file changed events at startup.

• Fixed bug in exception handling. Binary for patching.

• fws 0.7.0.0 supports all configuration options.
• fwc 2.4.0.0 released in binary format.

• Support for regular expression filters.
• Schema changes: added regular expression settings.

• Fixed bugs in fwxml
• fws can now be used with fwxml 1.7.x.0 (old file name is missing in properties window)
• Source only releases for now

Beta kind of releases (fwc_2.4.0.0 and fwxml_1.7.0.0), source only for now.

Now released: File Watcher Simple, File Watcher Console and File Watcher XML.

• First stable File Watcher Simple (fws) release is out now (it still lags some features: help and popups: file change and buffer error).

• File Watcher XML (FWXml) contains a bug fix and quality upgrades.

• File Watcher Console now uses the new File Watcher XML (FWXml) class library.

New versions of File Watcher Simple (Beta) and FWXml released.

Beta version of File Watcher with Windows.Forms user interface is released.

Contains updated help and other fixes. See notes.

Fixed missing thread synchronization that can cause log file corruption.

FWXml 1.5.1.1 is relased. FWXml 1.5.1.0 has invalid resource name. It contains also minor fixes. See notes.

FWC 2.3.3.0 is relased. Now uses FWXml 1.5.1.1. Contains also other changes. See notes.