Question

I am wanting to code a script that checks a webpage every hour. I have been looking at other questions on SO, and everyone is talking about using:

static System.Windows.Forms.Timer t;

Can someone please help me?

I haven’t done much coding in C# in a long time, as I have been looking at Unix & Linux lately.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

using System;
using System.Net;
using System.Timers;

class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        Timer t = new Timer(TimeSpan.FromHours(1).TotalMilliseconds);
        t.Elapsed += (sender, e) =>
        {
            // This code will execute every hour
            using (var client = new WebClient())
            {
                // Send an HTTP request to download the contents of the web page
                string result = client.DownloadString("http://www.google.com");

                // do something with the results
                ...
            }
        };
        Console.WriteLine("press any key to stop");
        Console.ReadKey();
    }
}