ASP.NET text box alert

I'd like to be able to have a text box alert in my C# web application if a file exists on a server. Any ideas? New to C# here. So for example, if I have text.txt (and I know that it's always going to be text.txt) that someone drops into a folder onto a fil开发者_JS百科e server, my web application page will alert me using the timer (or something like that).

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Your web app is running on the Web server, which is probably in a locked server room somewhere. Showing a pop-up dialog there won't do anyone much good, because nobody will see it.

What you want is to show a dialog box on the client side (i.e., in the Web browser that's looking at your Web page). To do that, you have to use JavaScript; specifically, the alert function.

But now you've got a communication problem: your client-side JavaScript needs to be able to ask the server whether the file exists. Probably the best thing to do is to make a timer in JavaScript (setInterval) that sends an AJAX request to the server. You would have a "page" on the server -- some .aspx file -- that, instead of HTML, returns some simple code (maybe as simple as a "0" or a "1") that indicates whether the file exists. Then your JavaScript can load that "page's" content into a variable, inspect the variable, and know whether to show the alert.

As for how to do AJAX, you'll want to use a library like jQuery. Pick a library if you haven't already, and then read its docs to see how to do AJAX requests.

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Try this

string path = "C:\\TestFolder\\......."; // Path

DirectoryInfo directory = new DirectoryInfo(path);

 foreach (FileInfo file in directory.GetFiles())
        {

                if (file.Name == text.txt)
                {
                    MessMessageBox.Show("Text file exists");
                }

        }

Hope it will help

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// TODO: Read up on FileSystemWatcher

FileSystemWatcher watcher = new FileSystemWatcher();

watcher.Path = @"C:\MyDirectory";
watcher.Changed += new FileSystemEventHandler(watcher_Changed);
watcher.Deleted += new FileSystemEventHandler(watcher_Deleted);
watcher.Renamed += new RenamedEventHandler(watcher_Renamed)
watcher.Created += new FileSystemEventHandler(watcher_Created);

watcher.EnableRaisingEvents = true;
watcher.Filter = "*.txt"; // could also set it to "text.txt" or "*"

void watcher_Changed(object sender, System.IO.FileSystemEventArgs e))
{
    MessageBox.Show("Zomg " + e.FullPath +" has been changed!!");
}
private void fileWatcher_Renamed(object sender, System.IO.RenamedEventArgs e)
{
    MessageBox.Show(e.OldFullPath + " was renamed to " + e.FullPath);
}
private void fileWatcher_Deleted(object sender, System.IO.FileSystemEventArgs e)
{
    MessageBox.Show(e.FullPath + " was deleted!");
}
private void fileWatcher_Created(object sender, System.IO.FileSystemEventArgs e)
{
    MessageBox.Show(e.FullPath + " was created!");
}

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You can use the FileSystemWatcher class for this purpose. But that has to run as a client application (Windows Forms application or a service), not from a web application (you can't access the client computer from within your browser).

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The best way to check if a single specific file exists would be File.Exists:

if (File.Exists("c:\\test.txt"))
  //inform user