Winforms Timer for Dummies

Question

I\'m trying to get a timer to tick once a second in a winform, when I look for advice on how to do this I find loads of stuff about threads. Well I don\'t care about threads

Answer 1

Apart from taking out the loop (as per jasonh's answer), your approach could become a little inaccurate if the app is kind of busy. Although you specify their interval in milliseconds, WinForms timers have a 18 ms resolution and have a very low priority, the message loop only checks timers if it finds nothing else to do.

So, keep a StartTime (DateTime) value and use that to calculate the remaining time in every Timer event. You just could need 61 tick to reach a minute.