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Asked: 2026-05-15T22:57:57+00:00

I’m writing a windows service that should perform an action every, lets say, 60

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I’m writing a windows service that should perform an action every, lets say, 60 seconds.

How is the best way to implement that main loop?

Implementations I’ve seen so far:
1) Using a Timer object that executes a delegate every xx seconds
2) Using ManualResetEvents (the implementation I’ve seen only executes once, but as far as I understood, it is possible to create a loop with such resetevents)

The windows service will run all the time, so it would be best to create a service that has no memory leak.

What is the best way to implement that main loop?

Edit after comments:
The action that will be performed every X seconds will start several (lets say max 10) threads. Each thread does not run longer than 30 seconds

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you do use a system.timers.timer make sure to set autoreset to false and start it and the end of your process. Here’s a full example

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