Start a stopwatch from specified time

Question

Im trying to start a stopwatch from a given time (decimal value pulled from a database). However, because the Stopwatch.Elapsed.Add returns a new timespan rather than modify

Answer 1

The Elapsed property of StopWatch is read only, which makes sense. A stopwatch simply measures the amount of time that passed between start and stop.

If you want to add a timespan to the value - get the Elapsed value in a variable and add a timespan to it, after you have measured it (i.e. after stopping).