Difference between System.Timers.Timer and System.Windows.Forms.Timer?

[Icyculyr]

Hey, I'm wondering what exactly is the difference System.Timers.Timer and System.Windows.Forms.Timer???

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[jmcilhinney]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc164015.aspx

[Icyculyr]

Thanks, I read some of it, doesn't appear to be anything relevant to me, interesting to know the Windows.Forms.Timer is only accurate to 55ms though o_O

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[jmcilhinney]

The main point to note is that the WinForms Timer is single-threaded, i.e. it raises its Tick events on the UI thread, where the Timers.Timer raises its Elapsed events on a thread pool thread by default. As such, the WinForms Timer is good for just updating the UI or quick calculations but anything that will take time is best done with a Timers.Timer.

[Icyculyr]

I see, thanks a lot jm.

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