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Ok I've got a bit of an interesting problem on my hands. Here's a bit of background: I'm writing a media library service implementation that will serve URLs to a front end flash player. The client wants to be able to push content into the service by uploading files with some metadata into an FTP folder - I have control of the metadata schema. The service watching this folder will pick up any new files, copy them to a "content" folder with, then push the meta data and the url's to the content down the content service and into the database. The content service isn't a problem, done. Watching an FTP folder is. My current implementation uses the FileSystemWatcher object with a filter for xml files. There may be more than one file for each content item e.g. high, med, low quality videos. I plan to enforce either by process or by a tool that the content is organised into it's own folders just for brevity but this isn't really an issue. The xml file will look a bit like this: <media> <meta type="video"> <name>The Name Displayed</name> <heading>The title of the video</heading> <description> A lengthy description about the video.. </description> <length>00:00:19</length> </meta> <files> <video file="somevideo.flv" quality="low"/> <video file="somevideo.flv" quality="medium"/> <video file="somevideo.flv" quality="high"/> </files> </media> So when a new file is created the FileSystemWatcher.Created event fires. I've got a seperate thread running to process the content which shares a queue with the main service process (don't worry it's using the producer consumer pattern as detailed here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/yy12yx1f.aspx ). This all work

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