Schedule timer to run tasks on different times to monitor files in c#

Question

Hello experts

I want to monitor files in different folders using timer to schedule tasks at different times within worker service in c#. I have got the idea working if I hard code two interfaces but if I want to do it for multiple tasks how will i run my monitorFiles function to do that using the Task.delay.

the code is following:

Thanks in advance.

how to run the MonitorAndProcessFiles to be called instead of the run_elapsed method in the timer call back function.

 

private void MonitorAndProcessFiles(object sender, ElapsedEventArgs e)

{

/*Check if dest directory exist, if yes then move the files */

try

{

for (int i = 0; i < configsItems.Count; i++)

{

if (configsItems.Count > 0)

{

rootPath = configsItems[i].Source;

destPath = configsItems[i].Destination;

regex = configsItems[i].regx;

bool directoryExists = Directory.Exists(destPath);

if (directoryExists)

{

eventLog1.WriteEntry($"The [{rootPath}] exists.");

log.Information($"The [{rootPath}] exists.");

var files = Directory.GetFiles(rootPath).OrderBy(f => new FileInfo(f).CreationTime).Where(item => regex.IsMatch(item));

eventLog1.WriteEntry($"Moving files from Folder: {rootPath}");

log.Information($"Moving files from Folder: {rootPath}");

foreach (string file in files)

{

try

{

File.SetAttributes(destPath, FileAttributes.Normal);

File.Move(file, $"{destPath}{Path.GetFileName(file)} ");

eventLog1.WriteEntry($"File {Path.GetFileName(file)} moved to the the {destPath} successfullly");

log.Information($"File {Path.GetFileName(file)} moved to the the {destPath} successfullly");

}

catch (IOException)

{

eventLog1.WriteEntry($"Failed moving {Path.GetFileName(file)} to the {destPath}, File is being used by another process!", EventLogEntryType.Error);

log.Information($"Failed moving {Path.GetFileName(file)} to the {destPath}, File is being used by another process! ");

}

}

}

else

{

Directory.CreateDirectory(destPath);

}

}

}

}//end of main try block

catch (Exception)

{

eventLog1.WriteEntry("Can not access folders over the network", EventLogEntryType.Error);

log.Information("Can not access folders over the network");

}

}/*End of MonitorAndProcessFiles*/