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I am writing a program that manages a bunch of timers.
The user has to start them manually, and is able to get information from each timer, to know the remaining time for example.
I don’t want the GUI to freeze, therefore I don’t want to have a timer on the main form thread that freezes the whole thing.
So, does the Timer class send the timer on a new thread, or it keeps it on the main UI thread?
Otherwise, should I use a Background Worker to accomplish this?
The
System.Windows.Forms.Timerevent runs on the UI thread.Instead you can use a
System.Threading.Timerwhich runs on a worker thread.Ref. : Comparing the Timer Classes in the .NET Framework Class Library