how to continuously run a c# console application in background

Question

I would like to know how to run a c# program in background every five minute increments. The code below is not what I would like to run as a background process but would lik

Answer 1

How about using a System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherTimer?

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        DispatcherTimer timer = new DispatcherTimer();
        timer.Interval = new TimeSpan(0, 5, 0); // sets it to 5 minutes
        timer.Tick += new EventHandler(timer_Tick);
        timer.Start();
    }

    static void timer_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        // whatever you want to happen every 5 minutes
    }

}