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Pacane
Pacane

Reputation: 21521

Should I use background workers or timers in this situation?

I am writing a program that manages a bunch of timers.

The user has to start them manually, and is able to get information from each timer, to know the remaining time for example.

I don't want the GUI to freeze, therefore I don't want to have a timer on the main form thread that freezes the whole thing.

So, does the Timer class send the timer on a new thread, or it keeps it on the main UI thread?

Otherwise, should I use a Background Worker to accomplish this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 289

Answers (2)

Gustavo F
Gustavo F

Reputation: 2206

Depends on the type timer you use, I suggest to read these articles to decide the best for you.

Upvotes: 0

Mitch Wheat
Mitch Wheat

Reputation: 300827

The System.Windows.Forms.Timer event runs on the UI thread.

Instead you can use a System.Threading.Timer which runs on a worker thread.

Ref. : Comparing the Timer Classes in the .NET Framework Class Library

Upvotes: 7

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