windows service to run every one hour

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Hi everyone,

I have a windows service which should run every one hour, but its calling the function at the time of starting and after finishing the work only its says started and again after 1 hour it never call the function.

I put the code below, please suggest

C#

public PosNetService()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
        {

            startservice();
        }


        private void startservice()
        {
            checkstatus();

        }

        private void checkstatus()
        {

            try
            {
                System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000 * 60 * 60);
// then remaining work to do

Posted 4-Feb-13 23:56pm

Ahamed Azeem

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Sheikh Muhammad Haris · Answer 1 · 2013-02-05T00:24:00

With System.Timers.Timer you have more options, where System.Threading.Timer is a lightweight timer. I would recommend you to use System.Timers.Timer

Try this ...

C#

using System.Timers;

Timer tmrExecutor = new Timer();

protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
{
      tmrExecutor.Elapsed += new ElapsedEventHandler(tmrExecutor_Elapsed); // adding Event
      tmrExecutor.Interval = 5000; // Set your time here 
      tmrExecutor.Enabled = true;
      tmrExecutor.Start();
}

private void tmrExecutor_Elapsed(object sender, System.Timers.ElapsedEventArgs e)
{
      //Do your work here 
}

protected override void OnStop()
{
      tmrExecutor.Enabled = false;
}