How do I gracefully stop a System.Threading.Timer?

Question

I have a Windows Service implemented in C# that needs to do some work every so often. I\'ve implemented this using a System.Threading.Timer with a callback method t

Answer 1

With this code

 timer = new Timer( state => {
                   // simulate some work that takes ten seconds
                   Thread.Sleep( tickInterval * 10 );

                   // when the work is done, schedule the next callback in one second
                   timer.Change( tickInterval, Timeout.Infinite );
               },
               null,
               tickInterval, // first callback in one second
               Timeout.Infinite );

it is almost certain that you will Dispose the timer while it is sleeping.

You will have to safeguard the code after Sleep() to detect a Disposed timer. Since there is no IsDisposed property a quick and dirty static bool stopping = false; might do the trick.