More natural approach of using FileSystemWatcher: var wh = new AutoResetEvent(false); var fsw = new FileSystemWatcher(“.”); fsw.Filter = “file-to-read”; fsw.EnableRaisingEvents = true; fsw.Changed += (s,e) => wh.Set(); var fs = new FileStream(“file-to-read”, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite); using (var sr = new StreamReader(fs)) { var s = “”; while (true) { s = sr.ReadLine(); if (s != … Read more
The idea of async programming is to allow the calling thread (assuming it’s a thread pool thread) to return to the thread pool for use on some other task while async IO completes. Under the hood the call context gets stuffed into a data structure and 1 or more IO completion threads monitor the call … Read more
Does the .net framework has an async built-in library/assembly which allows to work with the file system Yes. There are async methods for working with the file system but not for the helper methods on the static File type. They are on FileStream. So, there’s no File.ReadAllBytesAsync but there’s FileStream.ReadAsync, etc. For example: byte[] result; … Read more