Question

A need some help, I have a TextBlock that contains a string like this 00:00:00 And I want to create a timer that will count every second e.g.00:00:01 , 00:00:02 etc

So the stupid thing that I do is to take the value of the text box

string[] times = myTextbox.Text.Split(':');
int hours = Int32.Parse(times[0]);
int minutes = Int32.Parse(times[1]);
int seconds = Int32.Parse(times[2]);

Then I increase the right variable and finally I join them again and put them back in the textblock, BUT now my counter is like this: 0:0:1, 0:0:2, …

I know the problem, its very logical but my question is how can I solve it 🙂

Thank you very much.

Answer 1

Instead of splitting the text of the textbox i would use DateTime.Parse like this:

var time = DateTime.Parse(myTextBox.Text);

then add a second:

time = time.AddSeconds(1);

and then finally, putting it back out there:

myTextBox.Text = time.ToString("myPattern");

where myPattern is replaced with any of the patterns described here: http://www.geekzilla.co.uk/View00FF7904-B510-468C-A2C8-F859AA20581F.htm