Very weird stuff in project - timers not ticking

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Hi.
I've been developing for years and have never experienced these type of problems.

This project is not running with application framework (running from main sub so maybe i must enable something manually)

1) Timers of System.Windows.Forms.Timer don't tick after enabling them (And executing the "Start" method), however, System.Timers.Timer do execute perfectly.

2) MessageBox popup OK before entering the form (before application.run) but once entered the main form messageboxes don't popup (Nor does MsgBox work)

Please help.

Thanks in advance.

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Posted 20-Aug-10 0:17am

Eli Nurman

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Shani Natav · Accepted Answer · 2010-08-20T01:46:00

Solution 1

Your main must be decorated with a single thread Apartment Attribute like
this:

C#

[STAThread]
public static void main(string[] args)

In order for the System.Windows.Forms.Timer to work.

This might be the problem with the MessageBox also,
the UI Events don't execute with this attribute.

Posted 20-Aug-10 1:46am

Shani Natav

Updated 20-Aug-10 1:47am

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