Can I Use More Than One Timer In A Program In C# Or Is It Unsafe? And What''s The Best Way To Write And To Handle More Than One

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i'm using serial ports in my program will it interfere with it? and would it ever be okay to use one timer to continuously read from the port? or it is a bad idea
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Posted 3-May-14 20:11pm

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-03T20:50:00

You can use more than one timer in an app , but it's not a good idea, as timers are scarce resources and you shouldn't use more than you have to. I generally use just one (when I have to) and set it to 1/10th second or similar then use counters within the timer Tick event handler to process multiple uses. A timer on it's own shouldn't interfere with a serial port.

But - no, I wouldn't use a timer to read info from a serial port: instead use the SerialPort.DataReceived event instead.