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Hi,



What is the best way to release all resources holded by the Timer

(myTimer from class System.Timers.Timer)?



Is it:

1- myTimer.dispose

2- myTimer.enabled = false

3- myTimer.close



I want to have the timer set to nothing so I can recreate a new one, I

want to do this in a second step:



myTimer = New System.Timers.Timer

AddHandler myTimer.Elapsed, AddressOf ListenToRequest

myTimer.Interval = 100

myTimer.Enabled = True



I am asking this because it seem that the timer loop a couple of time

before being stopped, and raising errors by the way.

This is my original code:

myTimer.Dispose()

myTimer = New System.Timers.Timer

AddHandler tmrClientQwery.Elapsed, AddressOf ListenToRequest

myTimer.Interval = 100

myTimer.Enabled = True



Thank you very much


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The Timer.Enabled actually destroys the timer internally anyway. The extra

timer event's you're seeing are probably due to messages that are in the

queue. This can happen if you do a lot of processing in the timer tick

handler such as drawing on screen or disc access.



A more accurate and reliable timer can be found in System.Threading. The

dlegate for this timer is called directly and there are never any messages

hanging around in the queue.



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"User" <guest@guest.com>wrote in message



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Thanks ,



I tried this System.Threading.Timer. Is it possible that it

automatically create many threads that run the code in the elapsed event?



How can I be sure that I have only one thread under this timer?



Thank you!







Bob Powell [MVP] wrote:

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