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Adding Timer Control In Windows Service

Software Requirement

Prerequisite Knowledge

Creation Of A New Project

Add A Timer Control

1. Right-click on the toolbar and click on "Choose Items…".
2. A popup window comes. From the window, choose the timer option as shown in figure below.




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3. Click Ok.

Set The Timer’S Interval

1. Click on the timer control and press F4.
2. A property window appears. Set the Interval property to 10000.

Enable The Timer Control

1. Enable the timer control at the design time
   1. Click on the timer control
   2. Press F4
   3. Set the Enabled property to true.
2. Enable the timer control at run time – To do that, write the following code on OnStart event

protected override void OnStart(string[] args) {
	timer1.Enabled = true;
}

Add An Elapsed Event For Timer Control

1. Click on the timer control and press F4.
2. Property window appears. Click on the thunder like icon in the yellow color as shown in figure below




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3. Double-click on the area as shown in the figure above. Following code will be added in the code behind

private void timer1_Elapsed(object sender, System.Timers.ElapsedEventArgs e) {

}

Adding The Code In Elapsed Event

private void timer1_Elapsed(object sender, System.Timers.ElapsedEventArgs e) {
	DirectoryInfo dir = new DirectoryInfo(@"c:\karan");
	if (dir.GetFiles().Count() < 10) {
		File.Create(string.Format(@"c:\karan\{0}.txt", System.Guid.NewGuid()));
	}
}

Install And Start Service

1. Build the application.
2. Add the installer
3. Build again the application
4. Install service using the "installUtil".
5. Start the service.

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