Threading.Timer vs. Forms.Timer

Question

The short form of this question: When, if ever, is it appropriate to use the Forms.Timer in a multithreaded WinForms application?

More specifically, I am architectin

Answer 1

Forms.Timer registers the timer to send a message when the timer goes off. The event raised is treated like a GUI event. System.Threading.Timer uses a thread blocking approach. Basically, you should use Forms.Timer for your GUI oriented timers (to add some effects to the user interface) and Threading.Timer for scheduling tasks and other things.