WPF .NET Best way to trigger an event every minute

Question

I have an app that needs to check a database table every minute. The table is indexed by the time of day and so the app needs to run this check every minute.

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Answer 1

Not sure about WPF, but in WinForms, there's a Timer control for this. If there isn't one, one way is the following loop:

• Check if we're past the last minute set
• If not, sleep for a short time and check again
• Do stuff
• Check the current time
• Save the minute
• Sleep for 60000ms - current time(sec and ms part) - some value