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URLScan Watcher - find out when the URLScan log file changes

After getting burned by URLScan one too many times, I wrote a quick little app called URLScan Watcher. It records whenever the current URLScan log file changes (using the handy .NET FileSystemWatcher). You can minimize it to the system tray so it’s out of the way. Soon I’ll add Messenger-style balloon popups to notify of changes. It’s not polished (read, no error handling), but I haven’t run into any problems yet.

Download it from the URLScan Watcher workspace.

Published Mar 26 2004, 06:52 AM by darrell

Comments

Jason Row said:

Nice little app Darrell. I did have one issue with it though. Since I didn't install W2K in the "Windows" folder I had to modify the config file. Maybe for the next version you can have an installer that looks for such things.

Great use of the filesystemwatcher.

# March 26, 2004 12:00 PM

Darrell said:

Jason - ok, so it was a little rough on the first attempt. :) But good feedback, I can probably figure out some way to resolve the %WINDOWS% directive to a filepath.

Thanks for the feedback!

# March 28, 2004 4:26 AM

Jason Row said:

Darrell - It's a good first version and really I'm probably in the minority. I think that most people install Windows in the default folder. If you decide to make it a commercial product then it might be something to look into.

Just let me know when the next version comes out :)

# March 28, 2004 12:33 PM

Darrell said:

Jason - "make it a commercial product." Haha. I wouldn't charge other developers to help them out, especially not with a simple piece of software like this. I like to help other developers, and this is one way to do that.

The only way I would charge would be to write an article or a book. :)

# March 28, 2004 1:58 PM

Jason Row said:

So we won't be seeing a PayPal link on your site anytime soon then.

# March 29, 2004 2:29 AM

Darrell said:

Jason - nah. If it was a *really* cool app, maybe. If you want to help out, if you are going to buy a book from Amazon, just click through my link. I just buy more tech books so I can make better apps, you know, where you don't have to change the XML config file to point to a different directory! :)

# March 29, 2004 3:07 AM