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Now every 25milliseconds the counter increases...so if you watch the caption box at the top of the window you'll see our timer working.

// timer.cs

// C:>csc /t:winexe timer.cs

// Well we want our program to be in a GUI window, so we need to inherit

// from Form, which is in the library 'System.Windows.Forms'.

class SimpleWindow : System.Windows.Forms.Form

{

      private System.Windows.Forms.Timer       Ticker;

      private System.ComponentModel.IContainer components;

      private int i;

      private void Ticker_Tick(object sender, System.EventArgs e)

      {

            i++;

            this.Text = "Tick: " + i;

      } // End of Ticker_Tick(..)   this.Text = title;

      // Window constructor

      SimpleWindow()

      {

            i = 0;

            this.components = new System.ComponentModel.Container();

            this.Ticker = new System.Windows.Forms.Timer(this.components);

            this.Ticker.Interval = 25;

            this.Ticker.Tick += new System.EventHandler(this.Ticker_Tick);

            Ticker.Enabled = true;

      }

      // Our program entry point.

      static void Main()

      {

            System.Windows.Forms.Application.Run(new SimpleWindow());

      }

}// End of SimpleWindow Class

// Start/Init Timer

            // --- Timer --- //

            this.Ticker = new System.Windows.Forms.Timer();

            this.Ticker.Interval = 25;

            this.Ticker.Tick += new System.EventHandler(this.OnTimer);

            Ticker.Enabled = true;

// Timer Function to be called

            private void Ticker_Tick(object sender, System.EventArgs e)

            {

            }