Best way to stop and restart a System.Timers.Timer

[User]

Hi,

What is the best way to release all resources holded by the Timer
(myTimer from class System.Timers.Timer)?

Is it:
1- myTimer.dispose
2- myTimer.enabled = false
3- myTimer.close

I want to have the timer set to nothing so I can recreate a new one, I
want to do this in a second step:

myTimer = New System.Timers.Timer
AddHandler myTimer.Elapsed, AddressOf ListenToRequest
myTimer.Interval = 100
myTimer.Enabled = True

I am asking this because it seem that the timer loop a couple of time
before being stopped, and raising errors by the way.
This is my original code:
myTimer.Dispose()
myTimer = New System.Timers.Timer
AddHandler tmrClientQwery.Elapsed, AddressOf ListenToRequest
myTimer.Interval = 100
myTimer.Enabled = True

Thank you very much

 

[Bob Powell [MVP]]

The Timer.Enabled actually destroys the timer internally anyway. The extra
timer event's you're seeing are probably due to messages that are in the
queue. This can happen if you do a lot of processing in the timer tick
handler such as drawing on screen or disc access.

A more accurate and reliable timer can be found in System.Threading. The
dlegate for this timer is called directly and there are never any messages
hanging around in the queue.

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[User]

Thanks ,

I tried this System.Threading.Timer. Is it possible that it
automatically create many threads that run the code in the elapsed event?

How can I be sure that I have only one thread under this timer?

Thank you!