Is There Alternative For Timer
Jun 9, 2011is there an alternative for timer?
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Reliable Alternative To Timer In .NET Framework?
Feb 16, 2011Is there relialbe alternative to Timer class in .Net?We are having issues with System.Timers.Timer and System.Threading.Timer, e.g., they start immidietly, or sometimes fire out after long period of inactivity (after 49 days).I've seen that there seems to be a lot of issues with them like here: url...We can not use Forms timer.We are thinking to pause the thread for certain period of time instead of the timer...
View 4 RepliesExtend My Interval Timer Timer To Include Hours In Addition To Minutes And Seconds?
Aug 2, 2010What I need to do to make this code work for hours as well?[code]...
View 6 Replies.net - Accurate Windows Timer - System.Timers.Timer() Is Limited To 15 Msec
Jan 15, 2009I need an accurate timer to interface a Windows application to a piece of lab equipment.I used System.Timers.Timer() to create a timer that ticks every 10 msec, but this clock runs slow. For example 1000 ticks with an interval of 10 msec should take 10 wall-clock seconds, but it actually takes more like 20 wall-clock sec (on my PC). I am guessing this is because System.Timers.Timer() is an interval timer that is reset every time it elapses. Since it will always take some time between when the timer elapses and when it is reset (to another 10msec) the clock will run slow. This probably fine if the interval is large (seconds or minutes) but unacceptable for very short intervals.Is there a function on Windows that will trigger a procedure every time the system clock crosses a 10 msec (or whatever) boundary?
UPDATE: System.Timers.Timer() is extremely inaccurate for small intervals.I wrote a simple program that counted 10 seconds several ways:
Interval=1, Count=10000, Run time = 160 sec, msec per interval=16
Interval=10, Count=1000, Run time = 16 sec, msec per interval=15
Interval=100, Count=100, Run time = 11 sec, msec per interval=110
Interval=1000, Count=10, Run time = 10 sec, msec per interval=1000
It seems like System.Timers.Timer() cannot tick faster that about 15 msec, regardless of the interval setting.Note that none of these tests seemed to use any measurable CPU time, so the limit is not the CPU, just a .net limitation (bug?)For now I think I can live with an inaccurate timer that triggers a routine every 15 msec or so and the routine gets an accurate system time. Kinda strange, but...I also found a shareware product ZylTimer.NET that claims to be a much more accurate .net timer (resolution of 1-2 msec). This may be what I need. If there is one product there are likely others.
Asp.net - Local Static Variables In Timer.Tick Event (Stopping A Timer)
Jul 9, 2009I have a timer on a page in ASP.NET.
After a certain period of time elapses, I want to disable the timer.
I want to put a static variable in the timers tick event that will track how many seconds have elapsed.
My question is, will this work?
If user X and Y are viewing the page will they both have separate local static variables?
What is the best method of shutting down an ASP.NET timer after a certain elapsed time?
Synchronize The Timer Event So That The Timer Executes From The Background Worker Thread?
Apr 23, 2009I have a windows application that need to process som quite time consuming jobs. In my first try i did all processing under
the form thread. The result was bad response and update of the form due to the heavy jobs.To get around the problem with bad response from the form i created a new class "processing" where i put all the data processing. Then i instanciated a background worker where i in the "doWork" sub created a new instance of "processing".The "processing" class creates a timer from system.timer, and the timer drives the processing.On the Timer event Elapsed the timer starts a new thread from the thread pool.
My problem is now when i want to asynchronously close the background worker (with the corresponding function call what ever it is called ...) there is still a timer thread out there that causes exceptions for me.
1. How can i close my background worker and at the same time have the timer to be stopped?
2. Is there a way to synchronize the timer event so that the timer executes from the background worker thread?
3. Is there a better approach for me to adapt?
Create An Array Of Timer - Raise The Tick Event For A Particular Timer?
Jan 11, 2011I want to create an array of timer in vb.net. My problem is that how will i raise the tick event for a particular timer, say mytimer(x).tick and inside the tick event there is also a button, say mybutton(x) which changes location every interval. for example:
public class blah
dim mybuttons(20) as button
dim mytimer(20) as timer
private sub form_load(....) handles me.load
for x as integer = 0 to 20
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i dont know what to do next, all i want is to pass the button mybuttons(x) to mytimer(x) tick event, in which their index number are the same. i want to create one timer per button. how to do that? please help me and post example codes. i've researched the net but i cant understand passing variables, addhandlers, etc. i'm just new to programming object oriented.
VS 2010 Incorporate The Timer So Once A Page Loads The Timer Activates?
Jul 4, 2011How can I incorporate the timer so once a page loads the timer activates, waits a few seconds then I tell my program what to do next.I tried this code but it didnt work:
Timer1.Interval = 5000
Timer1.Enabled = True
Timer1.Start()
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Timer And 64bit Processor - Timer That Doesn't Work?
Sep 30, 2010Everything is nice and dandy on my pc, then I compile, move it to its final destination and I doesn't work! At first I thought it was a OS problem, but both machines has win7, I then thought it was a compilation problem, installed visual studio on the other pc, recompiled still with no luck, then it dawned on me, may it be a problem of 32bit vs 64bit?The piece of code is this:[code]....
By the way is not a problem of mouse_event, is the timer that doesn't work
Timer Control In VB - When I Click Outside Of The Form, The Timer Stops?
Mar 24, 2009I have a timer in vb.net and it's interval is 1000ms ,. i have placed in it's timer_tick event a code that will print screen the screen and save it to a database.The problem is when i click outside of the form, or loosing the focus of the mouse to the form containing that timer/printscreen, the timer stops. As a result the printscreen also stops.here are it's properties:
generate member = true
interval = 1000
modifiers = friend
.net - Systems.timer.timer Unwanted Multithreading?
Jul 14, 2011I recently switched my code from using the windows.forms.timer to the systems.timer.timer and it has resulted in a multithreading error. I'm using the timer to trigger just one event so multithreading shouldn't be an issue. To give more detail I have implemented the timer at follows:
At the top of the class I have: Private Shared timr1sec As System.Timers.Timer
When the program loads (Private Sub Test_load):
timr1sec = New System.Timers.Timer(1000)
AddHandler timr1sec.Elapsed, AddressOf OnTimedEvent
In OnTimedEvent I call several subroutines, and write some data to the screen using a ListView object.VisualExpress throws the multithreading error on the last line of this code, which is in OnTimedEvent
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Timer In A Thread - Routine Which Is Controlled By A Timer
Aug 13, 2010I have a routine which is controlled by a timer. It works perfectly. The problem is that now, I need to run this routine several times, so I need to start differents threads so that my program doesn't get hung up. I've been trying to start my timer inside a thread, but it doesn't work!
View 18 RepliesVB6 Create Object Of Timer Instead Of Timer Control
Nov 6, 2009VB6 create object of timer instead of timer control
View 5 RepliesVS 2008 Timer - Possible To Use A Timer To Delay Code?
Apr 6, 2009Is it possible to use a timer to delay code? For example:
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Alternative To SQL CE?
Jul 15, 2010I've created an app (VB.NET) where each installation of the app works with a single local database on the PC. No multiuser and no ability for the user to change databases - the database is effectively part of the app, with a fixed scema, only the data will change.At the moment the database is SQL CE. It has about 30 tables with some simple relationships between the tables.
I'm wondering if there is an alternative to SQL CE that might be faster in this scenario. Although SQL CE is excellent and easy to use, I get the feeling there is perhaps an unecessary overhead when using it for something simple - and it does seem a little slow when my app is doing complex stuff that interacts a lot with the DB. In my prototype I actually loaded the 'database' tables from text files into Arrays and developed subs and functions to perform the database searches etc. It was blindingly fast but I realised it wasn't a scaleable solution because it was an 'in-memory' database. A compromise would be to 'page' data into array when needed, but it all gets horribly complex and that's probably why some very clver people have created SQL CE !
.net - Namespace With An Alternative Name?
Jan 27, 2011Using VB.net, I have a namespace which I'd like to rename for the future. However, I'd also like to keep the old obsolete namespace for a time to ensure backward-compatibility for our consumers for awhile. Is there a way in .NET to have two namespaces, one ordinary and one that merely is an alternative name for the other?
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Alternative DateTimePicker?
Apr 2, 2009From the WINDOWS Date & Time settings FORM is this accessible as an alternative
View 1 RepliesAlternative For Each - In Loop ?
Mar 31, 2012Below is the code for a linked list search I have tried to implement in to searching through each of the elements of htmlelements .For some reason If element.InnerText = (item) will only work if if is only a string ("example") .Are there any other ways of Implementing the for each loop to search through my item linked list?
Original code for searching for 1 string
Private Sub block()
Dim elements As HtmlElementCollection = webBrowser.document.All
Dim word_found As Boolean
word_found = False
[CODE]...
This is the Loop for item I have tried to implement but is not working ,because of the for each loop .The value of element.Innertext = "" or null when I try to use one of the linked list item[If element.InnerText = (item)] is used and only have a value when a string is used to [If element.InnerText = (google)]
Private Sub block()
Dim elements As HtmlElementCollection = webBrowser.document.All
Dim word_found As Boolean
word_found = False
Dim item As LinkedListItem = words.Head
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Alternative To A Combo Box?
Apr 28, 2010I've encountered a problem in a application that I inherited. It contains a combo box that loads information.The problem is that there are more data that the control will hold (32767
View 2 RepliesAlternative To Uri.EscapeDataString?
Nov 6, 2011Is there an alternative to Uri.EscapeDataString? I'm trying to upload an image, by converting it into a base64 string, but I need to use Uri.EscapeDataString on it first, and if the image is big then Uri.EscapeDataString will say that the URI is too long.
View 2 RepliesAsp.net - Alternative To TidyCOM
Dec 31, 2011My clients web application is using TidyCOM to clean up dynamically created XML files from a SQL database query. With this TidyCOM, they are not able to upgrade the web application to .Net 4.0 framework. Is there an alternative to using TidyCOM so that these dynamically created XML files are validated correctly?
View 1 RepliesBest Alternative For QueryString?
Feb 28, 2009We heard a lot about the vulnerabilities of using QueryStrings and the possible attacks.Aside from that, yesterday, an error irritated me so much that i just decide to stop using QueryStrings, i was passing something like[code]....
View 8 RepliesGetting Alternative For Outlook?
Jul 11, 2010My VB application also needs to manage simple appointments in an agenda, however one user has no MSOutlook. Someone knows of an alternative calendar tool, with which I can do this?
View 2 RepliesLooking For A Alternative To SendKeys?
Jun 8, 2010So I've been doing a lot of reading today and apparently SendKeys isn't very reliable anymore.Does anyone know of another alternative to it for what I need:
The application works by the form being positioned over a open window, notepad, word, excel etc and it then determines what it is over, notepad, word, excel etc and then reads the file, and does some processing using SendKeys at the moment.Though I do believe I could probably change the later at some point. The problem I'm having right now is when I try to send the Alt + Tab to change focus it's working roughly 12% of the time.If you are wondering I ran it 50 times and it worked 6 of those,thus the 12%.I'm thinking that is rather unacceptable.This is what I'm using which should work: SendKeys.SendWait("%{TAB}")
XP Service Pack 3 and vb.net 2005
Sendkeys Or An Alternative?
Aug 30, 2010First off, using VB2010. I'm in the process of upgrading some applications from VB6 to 2010 and haveing a great time of it. The current application I'm working on is using Sendkeys of which I have changed over to the WSH.Sendkeys of which is pretty decent. Basically the program is copy and pasting the current open file, reading some data and saving it as a different file type. It also has to change xls files to csv and then saving it to the format as well as a smiliar thing with word. Thus the reason for the copy and paste as it's changing the extension to a dot date (for example, test.830).This is the flow of how it works for a text file (most basic)
1. changes focus to notepad
2. Select all Copy to ClipBoard
3. Open Programmers File Editor and a blank file
4. Paste in text
5. Save as code.date extension to the directory
Excel files obviously have a few extra steps.
System.Web Alternative In The .NET
Sep 22, 2011I need a good alternative for System.Web that is included in the .NET 4 Client Profile. Currently all of my frameworks are included in the client profile, except System.Web. What is a good alternative?
View 7 RepliesAnimation - Link The Timer To The"timer Start Button" And Make It Move?
Mar 15, 2009I already created a button "enjoy button" that i want to move in a form when the "timer start button" is clicked.how do link the timer to the"timer start button" and make it move? this is what i tried so far..then am blank first
Quote:
Private Sub MainForm_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
'Me.xTimer.Enabled = False
xTimer.Interval = 10[code].........
What Is The Best .net Alternative To Dde For File Associations
Aug 13, 2009I have an MDI Windows Forms application (.net 2008) that allows the user to associate various file types with the application. I currently do this with a registry entry something like this, that causes the application to load and access the file name via the command line:[code...]
In the pre-.net version of the application, I used DDE (ddeexec in the registry). If an instance of the application was executing when a file was double-clicked in Windows Explorer, it would open the file without starting up a new instance of the application.
Now that DDE has been deprecated by Microsoft, what is the best way in .net for an executing MDI application to open an additional file when the file is double-clicked in Explorer, as opposed to starting a new instance of the application?
Alternative For INKEY Command?
Sep 23, 2007I'm running Visual Basic.net. I used to use the INKEY command, available in older DOS versions of Basic, to allow the user to change the flow of a program by touching a keyboard key. It seems to be available only in Visual Fox Pro. Is there an alternative for Visual Basic?
View 4 RepliesAlternative To InnerHTML/outerHtml?
Oct 24, 2011If I wanted to make changes in page site (using with WebBrowser, and only the user will see it) I would do it:
Dim Rstring As String = WebBrowser1.Document.Body.InnerHtml
Rstring = Replace(Rstring, "Some Text To Replace", "<B>Some Text To Replace</B>")
WebBrowser1.Document.Body.InnerHtml = Rstring