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How to monitor a folder for new files from your C# application

Suppose that you need to write a C# application to run in an environment where there are many batch applications running and creating files as their output.

Your application is one of them and is required to process files produced by others. How are you going to know from your C# application when these files are ready?

In this post, I document the use of a .Net facility that can help you achieve that.