.NET How to combine FileSystemWatcher with ReadDirectoryChangesW to monitor Folder/File Opening?

Question

I am currently using FileSystemWatcher to monitor my local file system changes but i want to monitor Folder/File opening. after a lot of investigations, i found that this can be done using ReadDirectoryChangesW but i can't use this method along with FileSystemWatcher. My question is how to combine ReadDirectoryChangesW with FileSystemWatcher with a sample code on how to do this.

public class Watcher : FileSystemWatcher
{

}

Answer 1

To get events like accessed - you need to add an audit on this directory/files. Then you can consume audit entries to see who/when accessed file see more here