Run async method regularly with specified interval

Question

I need to publish some data to the service from the C# web application. The data itself is collected when user uses the application (a kind of usage statistics). I don\'t wa

Answer 1

The simple way of doing this is using Tasks and a simple loop:

public async Task StartTimer(CancellationToken cancellationToken)
{

   await Task.Run(async () =>
   {
      while (true)
      {
          DoSomething();
          await Task.Delay(10000, cancellationToken);
          if (cancellationToken.IsCancellationRequested)
              break;
      }
   });

}

When you want to stop the thread just abort the token:

cancellationToken.Cancel();