A watchdog timer may one day save your life or, better yet, your career. Although this statement is a little melodramatic, the proper use of this tool separates the hackers from the programmers in ...

Unless your app is a background location services, VOIP, or music app, your app can only run code in the background for about 15 minutes-- after that, your app gets suspended and your only way to ...

A practical workaround shows how PowerShell developers can keep Windows Forms GUIs responsive by moving timer-driven processing into background jobs and using a second timer to update the interface ...

The good thing about computers is they do your work for you, right? If you are a programmer, that doesn’t always seem to be a true statement. [Runtimemicro] has the answer, at least if you are writing ...

Brien Posey explains why PowerShell timers can cause Windows Forms dashboards to freeze or fail to update, and why keeping GUI scripts responsive requires a different approach to timed events.