I am not a WMI person, but maybe you can get the information you need by
making WMI Queries using the classes in the System.Management namespace.

Deepak

-----Original Message-----
From: dotnet discussion [mailto:DOTNET@[...].COM] On Behalf Of
Chad Osgood
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 6:05 PM
To: DOTNET@[...].COM
Subject: [DOTNET] Monitoring "last write" for a given file

It's simple enough for me to use the FileSystemWatcher class to detect
when
a file is modified, but my problem is a bit more complex.  We have files
that are being uploaded to us via ftp on a scheduled basis.  What I need
to
be able to do, is detect when the upload is complete so that I can take
action on the file.  I can't simply monitor the size, as I'll be
notified of
a change before the entire file has been uploaded.  Is there a way for
me to
monitor the handle count of a given process/file through any of the base
classes?  If I could monitor the handle count, I would be able to
discern
when a file was first opened, then closed.  Perhaps there's another way
to
accomplish the same goal?  I'd appreciate any opinions.

For the curious, this will be a windows service that will monitor the
incoming ftp directory for file changes, so that batched data can be
updated
via a DTS/BCP in SQL Server 2k.

Thanks!
Chad

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