Timer

[LouisC4]

Hi,

I am using a timer with an interval of 5 minutes to check scheduled emails to be sent out. What I will like to know is if the Timer takes up a lot of resources to keep checking every 5 minutes to send out emails.

I don't know if I should be worring about this.

I apologize if this is a silly question.

Thanks,

Louis

 

[alvechurchdata]

If the only reason for this exe is to check emails every 5 minutes then you could try calling the Sleep API function. Using a timer means that the exe is always running and is continually checking "is it time yet?". The alternative is to let the Windows API put this process to sleep so that it only runs once every five minutes.

Geoff Franklin

http://www.alvechurchdata.co.uk

 

[Mike Gagnon]

Or use the Task scheduler, which starts the application and once it has finished checking it quits the application and only restarts five minutes later.


Mike Gagnon

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