System.Timers????

Question

This can't be that difficult.. I want to create and start a timer.. Once 2 minutes has elapsed I want to call on a specific method and disable the timer... Please assist... System.Timers.Timer tmrNewTimer = new System.Timers.Timer(); tmrNewTimer.Interval = 10000 tmrNewTimer.Enabled = true; tmrNewTimer.Elapsed += new ElapsedEventHandler(DoThisMethod); // code // code.. public DoThisMethod() { // code.. } All I am trying to do is have my application stop at the timer.. Wait 10 seconds.. execute the code in my DoThis method .. and disable the timer.. After 3 weeks I still am unsuccessful. If ANYONE could help me out with this it would be very much appreciated. and PLEASE don't just give me a link to MSDN.. Thank you

spgilmore · Answer

Well you don't actually say what the problem is. Does your timer not fire? Do you get a compiler error? Here is code that sets up a timer and counts the elapsed seconds. It works. private System.Timers.Timer mytimer; private int counter; private void timerfire(object sender System.Timers.ElapsedEventArgs e) { counter++; textBox1.Text = counter.ToString(); } private void button1_Click(object sender System.EventArgs e) { mytimer = new System.Timers.Timer(); mytimer.Enabled = false; mytimer.Interval = 1000; mytimer.Elapsed += new System.Timers.ElapsedEventHandler(timerfire); mytimer.Enabled=true; } If the problem is disabling the timer I've tried changing the TIMERFIRE to disable the timer and that works too. It only counts to 1. If all you want to do is add a 10 second pause there are other ways to do that like this: using System.Runtime.InteropServices; [DllImport(kernel32.dll)] public static extern int GetTickCount(); private void pausefor(int aseconds) { int startticks = GetTickCount(); while (GetTickCount()-startticks) < (aseconds * 1000) { //do nothing Application.DoEvents(); } }

sjones · Answer

Put the line: tmrNewTimer.Enabled = false; as the first line of your DoThisMethod function.