System.Timers.Timer timer1_Elapsed not firing! Help!

Question

I am creating another windows service and my timer is not ticking and I have no idea why! I am using system.timers.timer as I have in previous services and it doesn\'t work. I

Answer 1

I think timer1_Elapsed needs to use the event delegate, so

timer1_Elapsed +=  new ElapsedEventHandler(timer1_Elapsed);

http://msdn.microsoft.com/es-es/library/system.timers.timer.aspx

Though I would recommend the System.Threading.Timer for inside a service, as it will correctly throw exceptions inside the elapsed event. System.Timers.Timer just swallows them.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.threading.timer.aspx