Oh, it is. It is ASP.NET, unuseful for C# application program.


"Sam Hobbs" <samuel@s...> wrote in message 
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> There is a lot of discussion in that discussion but I think it won't help 
> you. I did not read all of it but all the sample code in that discussion 
> seems to be using ASP from the system that the file is in.
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> "Elliot" <elliot_barclay@h...> wrote in message 
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>>I will access the xml file on the Internet.
>> I found one but have not tried yet. How do you feel the idea from otaku?
>> http://www.dynamicdrive.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-9510.html
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>> "Sam Hobbs" <samuel@s...> wrote in 
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>>> I assume you must do this over the internet; that you do not have local 
>>> access to the file, but it will help to know that for sure.
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>>> If you can access the file locally, then Windows has a few functions 
>>> that will help.
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>>> If you cannot access the file locally and must query over the internet, 
>>> then it is possible to query the last modified date and time of a file. 
>>> If you do that, then you don't need to read all the data just to 
>>> determine if it has changed. I forget how to do it; it is something I 
>>> wanted to do a couple of weeks ago but I can't find any of the samples I 
>>> have of doing it. I thought the data was part of the HTTP headers but I 
>>> don't find it there. Getting the last update time of a file over the 
>>> internet is a very common thing to do and I am sure we could find the 
>>> answer easily if that will help you. I just did not pursue it further 
>>> when I was looking a couple of weeks ago but I know I have samples 
>>> somewhere in my system.
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>>> "Elliot" <elliot_barclay@h...> wrote in message 
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>>>>I propose to write a C# program to get the content of a xml file.
>>>> However, that file may be modified after 10 seconds, 10 minutes or 10 
>>>> hours.
>>>> I think the algorithm of getting the content every 10 seconds to check 
>>>> whether it was chaged is too stupid, assuming there are 50,000 users 
>>>> running the program(cause a heavy workload for the web server, worse 
>>>> still it is unable to handle).
>>>> Certainly, less than 10-second delay is acceptable if real-time is 
>>>> impossible.
>>>> Please advise me a better algorithm.
>>>> Any idea would be appreciated.
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