March 2002
Intermediate to advanced
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The System.Timers namespace provides the
Timer class, which periodically raises
an Elapsed
event.
It is a server-based component designed to be used in a
multithreaded environment, and is thus more accurate than many other
Windows-based timers. Unlike System.Windows.Forms.Timer,
a server-based timer is not dependent on a user interface message pump.
Figure 43-1 shows the
class diagram for this namespace.

Figure 43-1. The System.Timers namespace