C# WPF Application Scheduling Future Time and Date

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I am needing help creating a WPF application where the user schedules a DATE in the future and a TIME in the future to where it will then call some method or do something else like go invisible. I am not concerned with what it does after the interval is set. I have all the needed functionality except for how to keep track of the time interval set by the user. I use the calendar tool to retrieve the user data. I created my own time picker for the user to pick the time. Now I just need a way of measuring that time and date against the system clock to then do something. Everything that I have read says to use the Dispatcher class to keep track of time. Is there another class? Or is there a better way in WPF to do this?

Posted 1-Apr-13 11:26am

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Richard C Bishop 1-Apr-13 18:01pm

Point taken and agreed.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 2-Apr-13 10:50am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2013-04-01T11:39:00

No, if you simply need to track elapsed "real" time, use System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.stopwatch.aspx[^].

This is the most accurate way of measuring time available.

As I cannot be sure I really can understand the scenario and the ultimate purpose of it from this question, this is just a suggestion. It's not clear what is is meant by "tracking". Anyway, it's important to know the best way of measuring elapsed time, for whatever reason.

—SA