how to have a function run inside a service every 10 minutes?

Question

I have a windows service running, inside this i want to run a function every then minutes. I have found some code but it doesn\'t seem to work? I have a logger and it does not s

Answer 1

I need this functionality also. That is, my C# windows service must check email every 10 minutes. I stripped down some logic to make the code more effective, as follows :

private void timer_Elapsed(object sender, System.Timers.ElapsedEventArgs e)
        {
            _timer.Stop();
            try
            {
                EventLog.WriteEntry(Program.EventLogName, "Checking emails " + _count++);
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                EventLog.WriteEntry(Program.EventLogName, "This is my error " + ex.Message);
            }
            _timer.Start();
        }

The timer_elapsed method indeed will be call every 10 minutes, starting from the first _timer.start(), which you miss it by the way. I haven't done any checking of the _lastRun and startAt. I don't think we need it