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I have been checking out some of the possible timers lately, and System.Threading.Timer and System.Timers.Timer are the ones that look needful to me (since they support thread pooling).
I am making a game, and I plan on using all types of events, with different intervals, etc.
Which would be the best?
This article offers a fairly comprehensive explanation:
“Comparing the Timer Classes in the .NET Framework Class Library” – also available as a .chm file
The specific difference appears to be that
System.Timers.Timeris geared towards multithreaded applications and is therefore thread-safe via itsSynchronizationObjectproperty, whereasSystem.Threading.Timeris ironically not thread-safe out-of-the-box.I don’t believe that there is a difference between the two as it pertains to how small your intervals can be.