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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.

Posted Fri, Mar 26 2004 6:52 AM by Darrell Norton

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Jason Row wrote re: URLScan Watcher - find out when the URLScan log file changes
on Fri, Mar 26 2004 12:00 PM
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.
Darrell wrote re: URLScan Watcher - find out when the URLScan log file changes
on Sun, Mar 28 2004 4:26 AM
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!
Jason Row wrote re: URLScan Watcher - find out when the URLScan log file changes
on Sun, Mar 28 2004 12:33 PM
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 :)
Darrell wrote re: URLScan Watcher - find out when the URLScan log file changes
on Sun, Mar 28 2004 1:58 PM
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. :)
Jason Row wrote re: URLScan Watcher - find out when the URLScan log file changes
on Mon, Mar 29 2004 2:29 AM
So we won't be seeing a PayPal link on your site anytime soon then.

Darrell wrote re: URLScan Watcher - find out when the URLScan log file changes
on Mon, Mar 29 2004 3:07 AM
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! :)
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