I'm really struggling with this. I'm creating a winforms
application in visual studio and need a background timer that ticks once every half hour - the purpose of this is to pull down updates from a server.
I have tried a couple of different approaches but they have failed, either due to poor tutorial/examples, or to my own shortcomings in C#
. I think it would be a waste of time to show you what I have tried so far as it seems what I tried was pretty far off the mark.
Does anyone know of a clear and simple way of implementing an asynchronous background timer that is easily understandable by a C#
newbie?
// Create a 30 min timer timer = new System.Timers.Timer(1800000); // Hook up the Elapsed event for the timer. timer.Elapsed += OnTimedEvent; timer.Enabled = true; ... private static void OnTimedEvent(object source, ElapsedEventArgs e) { // do stuff }
with the usual caveats of: timer won't be hugely accurate and might need to GC.KeepAlive(timer)
See also: Why does a System.Timers.Timer survive GC but not System.Threading.Timer?
If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
Donate Us With