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

As described in "Concurrent Programming on Windows":
Create a dummy class InvalidWaitHandle, inheriting from WaitHandle:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Threading;

namespace MyNameSpace
{
    class InvalidWaitHandle : WaitHandle
    {

    }
}

Hence you can Dispose a System.Threading.Timer properly like this:

public static void DisposeTimer()
{
   MyTimer.Dispose(new InvalidWaitHandle());
   MyTimer = null;
}