FEZ Using .NET System Timers Example

This code example demonstrates the use of .NET’s Timers on a GHI Electronics FEZ board. If you are not familiar with timer’s – think of them as just a loop that polls every N seconds – on the Nth second it performs an action. We suggest referring to MSDN for further information.

This code is written in C# and assumes the development workstation has all required software installed.

using System;
using System.Threading; 

using Microsoft.SPOT;

public class Program
{
    static void RunMe(object o)
    {
        Debug.Print("From timer!");
    }
    public static void Main()
    {
        Timer MyTimer = new Timer(new TimerCallback(RunMe), null, 5000, 1000);
        Debug.Print("The timer will fire in 5 seconds and then fire priodically every 1 second");
        Thread.Sleep(Timeout.Infinite);
    }
}

For more information on specific namespaces please refer to the following resources:

• System Namespace
• System.Threading Namespace
• Microsoft.SPOT Namespace

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