Minimum practicle time for Timer Control

[Guest]

Im am using the timer control in a C# application and seem to be getting some
strange results relating to the timer event fire.

So whats the minimum practicle time for the fire? Is 20 milliseconds
practicle?
Failing that is there any way to measure when the event fires compared to
when it was ment to?

 

[Bob Powell [MVP]]

The Windows.Forms.Timer is innacurate due to its reliance on the message
pump but System.Threading.Timer is accurate and can reliably work down to
the 1 millisecond level. Remember though that if your service routine takes
more than a millisecond to complete you'll run into problems.

--
Bob Powell [MVP]
Visual C#, System.Drawing

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