Getting accurate ticks from a timer in C#

Question

I\'m trying to rebuild an old metronome application that was originally written using MFC in C++ to be written in .NET using C#. One of the issues I\'m running into is gett

Answer 1

I have had this problem when developing a recent data-logging project. The problem with the .NET timers ( windows.forms, system.threading, and system.timer ) is that they are only accurate down to around 10 milli seconds which is due to the event scheduling built into .NET I believe. ( I am talking about .NET 2 here ). This wasn't acceptable for me and so I had to use the multimedia timer ( you need to import the dll ). I also wrote a wrapper class for all the timers and so you can switch between them if necessary using minimal code changes. Check out my blog post here: http://www.indigo79.net/archives/27