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Why there are 5 Versions of Timer Classes in .NET?

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Why are there five timer classes in the .Net framework, namely the following:

  1. System.Timers.Timer
  2. System.Threading.Timer
  3. System.Windows.Forms.Timer
  4. System.Web.UI.Timer
  5. System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherTimer

Why are there several versions of the Timer class? And what are the differences between them?

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Mohammed A. Fadil Avatar asked Apr 25 '12 13:04

Mohammed A. Fadil

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Here's a description of the primary timers and the points that i find to be the most noteworthy.

Winforms.Timer

  • ticks on UI thread not guaranteed to ticket at a specific time
  • ticks delayed until UI thread is idle
  • will skip ticks if the UI thread is busy

DispatcherTimer

  • invoked on UI thread
  • can set priority for what level of 'idle' is required to generate a tick
  • will skip ticks

Threading.Timer

  • ticks on a worker thread from threadpool - no option for specifying thread
  • ticks are always fired on time
  • none are skipped - you must guard against new ticks while you're still processing a former tick
  • unhandled exceptions will crash the application

Timers.Timer

  • wrapper around threading timer
  • ticks on a worker thread taken from the CLR threadpool
  • can force to tick on a specific thread by supplying a SynchronizationObject
  • ticks are always fired on time
  • none are skipped
  • silently eats exceptions
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Bill Tarbell Avatar answered Oct 05 '22 10:10

Bill Tarbell

Timers.Timer generates an event after a set interval, with an option to generate recurring events. MSDN

Windows.Forms.Timer is a Control for winforms.

Web.UI.Timer performs asynchronous or synchronous Web page postbacks at a defined interval. MSDN

Threading.Timer is the timer for Callbacks. Creates a new Thread for working. Served by thread pool threads. MSDN

So, these timers have different purposes, also they are served by different tools.

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Victor Gorban Avatar answered Oct 05 '22 12:10

Victor Gorban
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