Monitoring a directory for new file creation without FileSystemWatcher

Question

I have to create a Windows service which monitors a specified folder for new files and processes it and moves it to other location.

I started with using FileSyste

Answer 1

You could use Directory.GetFiles():

using System.IO;

var fileList = new List();

foreach (var file in Directory.GetFiles(@"c:\", "*", SearchOption.AllDirectories))
{
    if (!fileList.Contains(file))
    {
        fileList.Add(file);
        //do something
    }
}

Note this only checks for new files not changed files, if you need that use FileInfo