How to block a timer while processing the elapsed event?

Question

I have a timer that needs to not process its elapsed event handler at the same time. But processing one Elapsed event may interfere with others. I implemented the bel

Answer 1

I use the System.Threading.Timer like so

 class Class1
    {
        static Timer timer = new Timer(DoSomething,null,TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1),TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1));

        private static void DoSomething(object state)
        {
            timer = null; // stop timer

            // do some long stuff here

            timer = new Timer(DoSomething, null, TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1), TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1));
        }



    }