VB.NET Tutorial 23 - Timers (Visual Basic 2008/2010)

In this tutorial, we will learn about one of the most fun and useful parts of Visual Basic .NET programming, Timers. Timers are similar to For Loops but will allow you to select the interval at which the code is executed. Timers are used in almost everything, including Keyloggers.

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[sakayaraj]

I am very very impressed, because I was searching so many examples on the internet and this was the perfect one for me to create a blinking notification label to get the user's attention for an error. Very good example for a timer and very simple and easy. Good work.

[mmiller]

Thanks! Very good explanation, I take an online class at my local college and needed some extra help, thank you a lot.

[santa]

u r a amsome teacher thx u i was looking 4 this tut 4 ages lol

[skrbi]

Gr8 tutorial for beginnners - Dude!!! keep it up

[Norway]

Is there any command to make it start from the beginning, so when you start running that form. It will automatically start counting?

And thank you, this really helped me allot!

[BelkissPao]

Thank you!!!! I like your videos! It help me a lot! :) You are WOW! :)

[DjStarmax]

nice tutorial,
I have a question..

Is it possible to put a timer in Database.

let say its a registration, that has MemID, Name, Membership Date, Status... etc

is it possible to save the timer in Status, ..
for example, if the MemID reach 2 days all of the information of MemID will be deleted/CLear.

Thanks

[OGAuror]

can you set a specific time for it to stop at? and possibly make some sort of noise when it does?

[coOkiecull]

thank you so much!!! it really helps me :D

[vinayak]

in this case whether time is part of project or form as we not put the timer on form. what if i have multipal forms and need to use multipal timers. can i put them on form so i could set them according to requirment.

[qwinbee]

@soldierofcake make the text of your textbox as "10" instead of 1 and do subtraction instead of addition. :))

[MinecraftVixen]

@RsbotforRs No, the text needs to say '0' not nothing.

[SargDunn]

FOR THOSE WITH VB.NET 2010: Use "Textbox1.text += 1" instead.

[amirulaizat]

How to make a timer that stop with only one button?

[dUber]

please help when i make a timer and double click it a window pops up to put the code in. and thats all fine and great but for some reason it always pops up as timer1_elapsed and not timer1.tick please help me! thanks for the tutorial though it helped me understand them better

[santa]

is there a way 2 make the timer go of like every random seconds between 1 -5 seconds?

[Diamonkesh]

Is there any way to make the timer stop by itself, for e.g., after x seconds?

[knightadetayo]

ok that is good, but how i u write a auto conversation, auto talk if the user did not response in-like 10SEC

[Thelucmann]

is there somethhing called the countdown timer and do you have a tut with it?

[amirulaizat]

How to make a timer stop automaticly without "Stop" button?