How to call a method after so many seconds?

Question

In my project I would like to be able to call a method after 3 minutes have passed. There is no \"main loop\" to speak of so I cannot use a stopwatch and constantly check if

Answer 1

Use a Timer.

While there will be a slight overhead if you create a 1000 timers, it won't be too much. Timers will do their job and fire an event when 3 minutes have passed. Also, if you want your code to repeat every 3 minutes, Timers are the way to go.