TimerCallBack

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  13 years ago

  by ziasharieff

  Mohammed Ziaulla

  , India

  Joined 13 years ago

  I am a very Jr. Vb.net programmer.  I need to figure out how to make a timer in a windows service that calls 3 procedures at set time intervals and saves them to my c drive with different name. I have made a windows application that is successful at saving my files in a XML format on a button click. But now I need to do the same process with a timer and write the new xml files over the old xml files.  I just need a little direction not your code to put me on track to solving my next step. I am confused as to if I need to know more about multithreading or the TimerCallBack. Any honest direction will be greatly appreciated. Thanks

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  13 years ago

  by jmcilhinney

  John McIlhinney

  Sydney, Australia

  Joined 15 years ago
  You don't need any TimerCallback delegates.  Just use a System.Timers.Timer component.  It behaves much like the System.Windows.Forms.Timer except that it's not tied to a Form.  It's a component too, so you can add it to your Toolbox and then add it to your service in the designer.  The Elapsed event of this Timer is basically the same as the Tick event of the other.  Just note that the Timers.Timer will stop after raising the Elapsed event by default.  If you want it to keep running the way a Windows.Forms.Timer does then you need to set its AutoReset property to True.
  
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  13 years ago

  by ziasharieff

  Mohammed Ziaulla

  , India

  Joined 13 years ago
  Great! Thanks for the info it is greatly appreciated!! You have a great day and thanks again!! Thant’s all I needed is a point in the right direction.
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