Best practice for interval event

[sdh]

I have a vb app that I want to fire an event when the system date matches that stored in the application

the interval will be at least a week possible longer. I obviously cannot directly use the timer control and want to reduce payload on the machine

any suggestions and or code would be really helpful
thxs
shaun
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[LazyMe]

What else than the timer would you want to use to periodically generate events?

If it's a week or longer, just set a timer that fires every now and then and at that moment compare the system date/time with the date/time of your interest. It doesn't produce much overhead.
Greetings,
Rick

 

[sdh]

thnxs Rick

But I have an exact time within my app and I want it to fire with a minute or so from that time so I would be firing the timer every minute to comare dates !
seems a bit wasteful
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[MichaelRed]

consider using the system scheduler?

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[sdh]

thank you micheal I started to look at that

the taskschedular api looks complicated !

do you have any examples i could learn from

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[MichaelRed]

if it is a 'repeating' item, I would not do it programatically!. Just open it and enter the info. I have not used any programatic interface for this app.


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[LazyMe]

>>so I would be firing the timer every minute to comare dates ! seems a bit wasteful

Do you really think that, besides all the other stuff you app needs to do and all the other stuff that all other processes need to do, comparing two dates every minute or so would be a waste of resources ?

I'd almost say that that particular piece of code might just be the least resource consuming piece of code executing on your pc at any time....
Greetings,
Rick