What is the best way to divide two TimeSpan objects?

Question

I want to get the ratio of one TimeSpan against another TimeSpan (Basically the progress of a playing video from it's total time). My current methods is to get the milliseconds of the two TimeSpan objects and divide one against the other. Something like:

        int durationInMilliseconds = totalTimeSpan.Milliseconds;
        int progressInMilliseconds = progressTimeSpan.Milliseconds;

        Double progressRatio = progressInMilliseconds / durationInMilliseconds;

Is there a more direct route? It's a simple problem and i'm just curious if there is a super elegant way to solve it.

Cheers all James

Answer 1

double progressRatio = progressTimeSpan.Ticks / (double)totalTimeSpan.Ticks;

You must cast one to a double, otherwise C# will do integer division. Ticks is better than the TotalMilliseconds because that is how it is stored and avoids any conversion.

Answer 2

You should use either Ticks or TotalMilliseconds, depending on the required precision. Milliseconds is the number of milliseconds past the current second.

As for a better solution, it doesn't get simpler than a division so your current solution is fine (minus the bug).