C# Timespan Milliseconds vs TotalMilliseconds

Question

In the example below, why does the Milliseconds property return 0 but the TotalMilliseconds property return 5000?

// 5 seconds TimeSpan intervalTimespan = new TimeSpan(0, 0, 5);  // returns 0 intervalTimespan.Milliseconds;  // returns 5000.0 intervalTimespan.TotalMilliseconds 

Answer 1

Simple:

• Milliseconds are the remaining milliseconds, that don't form a whole second.
• TotalMilliseconds is the complete duration of the timespan expressed as milliseconds.

Answer 2

Because Milliseconds returns the Milliseconds portion, and TotalMilliseconds returns the total milliseconds represented by the Timespan

Example: 0:00:05.047

Milliseconds: 47

Total Milliseconds: 5047