Sams Teach Yourself C#™ in 24 Hours

Creating Timers

One thing that all the controls you used in Hour 7, “Working with Traditional Controls,” have in common is that the user can interact with them. However, not all controls have this capability—or restriction, depending on how you look at it. Some controls are designed for use only by the developer. One such control is the Open File Dialog control you used in your Picture Viewer application in Hour 1, “A C# Programming Tour.” Another control that is invisible at runtime is the Timer control. The Timer control's sole purpose is to trigger an event at a specified interval of time.

Create a new Windows Application titled Timer Example. Change the name of the default form to fclsTimerExample and then set its Text property to Timer Example. ...