The path is not of a legal form

Question

When I try to run this application it says:"The path is not of a legal form.". It's a warning and it says there is something wrong with:"fileSystemWatcher1.IncludeSubdirectories = true;" when I click on browse. When i click on browse for the 2nd filewatcher it does exactly the same. ( I have 2 browse buttons to watch 2 directories ) I gave the filewatchers no starting path but when i do give them a starting path, it works. I dont want that. Please help me.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.IO;

namespace WindowsFormsApplication1
{
 public partial class Form1 : Form
{
    private bool pause = false;
    public Form1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
    }

    private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {

    }

    private void listBox1_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
    }


    // The lines with performed actions of a file
    private void fileSystemWatcher1_Created(object sender, System.IO.FileSystemEventArgs e)
    {
        if (!pause)
        {
            listBox1.Items.Add("File Created> " + e.FullPath + " -Date:" + DateTime.Now);
        }
    }

    private void fileSystemWatcher1_Changed(object sender, System.IO.FileSystemEventArgs e)
    {
        if (!pause)
        {
            listBox1.Items.Add("File Changed> " + e.FullPath + " -Date:" + DateTime.Now);
        }
    }
    private void fileSystemWatcher1_Deleted(object sender, System.IO.FileSystemEventArgs e)
    {
        if (!pause)
        {
            listBox1.Items.Add("File Deleted> " + e.FullPath + " -Date:" + DateTime.Now);
        }
    }

    private void fileSystemWatcher1_Renamed(object sender, System.IO.RenamedEventArgs e)
    {
        if (!pause)
        {
            listBox1.Items.Add("File Renamed> " + e.FullPath + " -Date:" + DateTime.Now);
        }
    }

    private void fileSystemWatcher2_Changed(object sender, System.IO.FileSystemEventArgs e)
    {
        if (!pause)
        {
            listBox1.Items.Add("File Changed> " + e.FullPath + " -Date:" + DateTime.Now);
        }
    }

    private void fileSystemWatcher2_Created(object sender, System.IO.FileSystemEventArgs e)
    {
        if (!pause)
        {
            listBox1.Items.Add("File Created> " + e.FullPath + " -Date:" + DateTime.Now);
        }
    }

    private void fileSystemWatcher2_Deleted(object sender, System.IO.FileSystemEventArgs e)
    {
        if (!pause)
        {
            listBox1.Items.Add("File Deleted> " + e.FullPath + " -Date:" + DateTime.Now);
        }
    }

    private void fileSystemWatcher2_Renamed(object sender, System.IO.RenamedEventArgs e)
    {
        if (!pause)
        {
            listBox1.Items.Add("File Renamed> " + e.FullPath + " -Date:" + DateTime.Now);
        }
    }

    //1st directory
    private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        fileSystemWatcher1.IncludeSubdirectories = true;
        DialogResult resDialog = dlgOpenDir.ShowDialog();
        if (resDialog.ToString() == "OK")
        {
            fileSystemWatcher1.Path = dlgOpenDir.SelectedPath;
            textBox1.Text = dlgOpenDir.SelectedPath;
        }
    }
    //2nd directory
    private void button3_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        fileSystemWatcher2.IncludeSubdirectories = true;
        DialogResult resDialog = dlgOpenDir.ShowDialog();
        if (resDialog.ToString() == "OK")
        {
            fileSystemWatcher2.Path = dlgOpenDir.SelectedPath;
            textBox2.Text = dlgOpenDir.SelectedPath;
        }
    }
    //log
    private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {

        DialogResult resDialog = dlgSaveFile.ShowDialog();
        if (resDialog.ToString() == "OK")
        {
            FileInfo fi = new FileInfo(dlgSaveFile.FileName);
            StreamWriter sw = fi.CreateText();
            foreach (string sItem in listBox1.Items)
            {
                sw.WriteLine(sItem);
            }
            sw.Close();
        }
    }
    //pause watching
    private void pause_button_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if (!pause)
        {
            pause = true;
            pause_button.Text = "Unpause";
        }
        else
        {
            pause = false;
            pause_button.Text = "Pause Watching";
        }
    }
    //clear listbox
    private void clear_button_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        listBox1.Items.Clear(); 
    }
}

}

Answer 1

Just a wild guess, but perhaps you need to set EnableRaisingEvents to false before you change IncludeSubdirectories, and the Path? Like this:

private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (dlgOpenDir.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
    {
        fileSystemWatcher1.EnableRaisingEvents = false;  // Stop watching
        fileSystemWatcher1.IncludeSubdirectories = true;
        fileSystemWatcher1.Path = dlgOpenDir.SelectedPath;
        textBox1.Text = dlgOpenDir.SelectedPath;
        fileSystemWatcher1.EnableRaisingEvents = true;   // Begin watching
    }
}

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x7t1d0ky.aspx