Needs help on basics of windows programming.

deep2002n

Hi,

I am new to windows programming, ( however I have extensive experience in web technologies using php and mysql), so am asking for a little help from the experts.

I want to alter the windows nt os program so that when i overwrite a .txt file, a copy of it goes to my achive directory. Can you help know how such prgorgam can be written, I mean which application to use , from where to download the freeware (if available), where to get help on the programming language.

Thanks in Advance
Deep
Bangalore

DaiMitnick

As with anything, there are multiple solutions so I'll suggest just one. I would think your best option is to use a .NET language, C# or VB, both similar, C# is slightly better but VB is slightly easier. So pick one and download the applicable language from the Visual Studio Express downloads page:

http://www.microsoft.com/express/Downloads/Download-2010.aspx

Once you have that, create a simple app with a FileSystemWatcher in it. This is essentially a function to watch a file and when a change occurs to it, it will do whatever you've programmed it to do, in this case take a copy of the file whenever it is changed. More informative info on the FileSystemWatcher class here:

http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials/aspnet/fd3891ed-db38-4149-83a2-95a3a49868b5/how-to-use-filesystemwatc.aspx

Hope this helps, Dai


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carly

Use Win32 api (C or C++) (Shell)

carly

Just use Win32 api (C or C++)
See on Professional Win32 api newsgroup :
news://nntp.aioe.org/comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
or http://tinyurl.com/cmhb5g by Google
where it has often been discussed