Background worker help (newbie)

[Jose Cuervo]

Hi,

I have an application that monitors a folder, then if a file is created in it, it waits 3 seconds, reads text in the file, then moves to another folder depending on what is in it or the extension of the file.

Now i am thinking, because i need to adding a 'doevents' in order to let my program update my textbox as it goes along, i should off load the reading and moving the files to a background worker, but leave the folder watcher under window initialized.

So i have my watcher running, and then i have an
If e.ChangeType = WatcherChangeTypes.Created Then
[was going to say call background worker]
End if

My first problem is, on my watcher i can get e.Fullpath and then manipulate from there. But when i put anything to look to e.Fullpath in my Private Sub BackgroundWorker_DoWork, i get an error about 'FullPath is not a member of System.ComponentModel.DoWorkEventArgs'

How can i pass the file name down to the background worker?

Sorry about this, i am quite new to programming, so can you please be gentle with me.

Thanks

 

[JohnH]

from main help page: BackgroundWorker Class (System.ComponentModel)

If your background operation requires a parameter, call RunWorkerAsync with your parameter. Inside the DoWork event handler, you can extract the parameter from the DoWorkEventArgs.Argument property.

So that would be this version: BackgroundWorker.RunWorkerAsync Method (Object) (System.ComponentModel)
Argument is type Object so you can pass anything through that.