Class TimerFactory

Namespace: Cuemon.Threading

Assembly: Cuemon.Core.dll

Provides access to factory methods for creating and configuring Timer instances.

public static class TimerFactory

Inheritance: object

TimerFactory

Examples

The following example creates a non-capturing timer that fires every two seconds after an initial one-second delay. The callback prints "Timer ticked" each time it executes; the timer is disposed after five seconds.

using System;
using System.Threading;
using Cuemon.Threading;

namespace Cuemon.Threading;

public class TimerFactoryExample
{
    public void Demonstrate()
    {
        using var timer = TimerFactory.CreateNonCapturingTimer(
            state => Console.WriteLine("Timer ticked"),
            null,
            TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1),
            TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2));

        Console.WriteLine("Timer started (1s delay, 2s interval)");
        Thread.Sleep(5000);
    }
}

Methods

CreateNonCapturingTimer(TimerCallback, object, TimeSpan, TimeSpan)

Initializes a new instance of the Timer class that suppress capturing the ExecutionContext.

public static Timer CreateNonCapturingTimer(TimerCallback callback, object state, TimeSpan dueTime, TimeSpan period)

Parameters

callback TimerCallback: A delegate representing a method to be executed.
state object: An object containing information to be used by the callback method, or null.
dueTime TimeSpan: The amount of time to delay before the callback is invoked. Specify InfiniteTimeSpan to prevent the timer from starting. Specify Zero to start the timer immediately.
period TimeSpan: The time interval between invocations of callback. Specify InfiniteTimeSpan to disable periodic signaling.

Returns

Timer: A new Timer instance that suppress capturing the ExecutionContext.

Remarks

Used by Microsoft internally in various scenarios: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/master/src/libraries/Common/src/Extensions/NonCapturingTimer/NonCapturingTimer.cs