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Timers for "larger" intervals? Messages   Related Types This message was discovered on microsoft.public.dotnet.framework. Responses highlighted in red are from those people who are likely to be able to contribute good, authoratitive information to this discussion. They include Microsoft employees, MVP's and others who IMHO contribute well to these kinds of discussions. Post a new message to this list... Paul J. Hurley I am working on an application that will repeat a certain procedure after a user specified time interval. This interval could be as brief as 2 seconds, or as long as once every hour or two. If it was limited to several seconds or even every few minutes, I would use one of the timer classes, probably System.Threading.Timer. But I don't know if it's good practice to allocate a Timer for something as long as a couple of hours. I know the System.Windows.Forms.Timer has limitations on the interval, but I can't find any such limits in any of the Threading timers doco. Is it OK to use a System.Threading.Timer for an hourly interval? Thanks Paul ---- Paul Hurley Caliban Computing http://www.Caliban.com/ Spam resistant return email address. Reply to this message...        Imran Koradia (VIP) System.Windows.Forms.Timer takes in an Integer value as the interval represented in milliseconds. With the positive integer values ranging from 1 to 2^32 - 1, you actually have an upper limit of approximately 596.5 hours. With System.Threading.Timer, one of the constructor takes in longs as well which gives you an even higher limit. So, as such you shouldn't have to bother about the upper limit of the timer. Ofcourse, the question is whether it would make sense to use a timer. Is this a windows app or a console app? you could make it a console app and schedule it via the windows scheduler which is probably a good idea if you shouldn't have trouble converting it to a console app. If not, I cannot think of any reason why a large interval wouldn't work. hope that helps.. Imran. "Paul J. Hurley" <Click here to reveal e-mail address> wrote in message news:Click here to reveal e-mail address... > I am working on an application that will repeat a certain procedure after a [Original message clipped] Reply to this message...        Paul J. Hurley Thanks for the tips, Imran. My app is a data acquisition Windows app. It periodically checks an external device (or devices) and records, compares, crunches, etc. the relevant data. The Windows Scheduler would do what I need, but since I'm not creating a console app I guess it's not an appropriate choice. Paul On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 17:06:26 -0400, "Imran Koradia" <Click here to reveal e-mail address> wrote: [Original message clipped] ---- Paul Hurley Caliban Computing http://www.Caliban.com/ Spam resistant return email address. Reply to this message...     System.Threading.Timer System.Windows.Forms.Timer Ad MBR BootFX Best-of-breed application framework for .NET projects, developed by Matthew Baxter-Reynolds and MBR IT

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