hi,

i have a timer that gets started when the form loads( i used timer1.start() method to do this) . i have button which when clicked should display the time it took from the time the timer was started until the button was clicked ..how do i do this in visual c# ?

Apart from that , i want the timer to reset and start again when the action is performed...

Waiting for your reply.

-Sweety

You should use the Stopwatch for this:

• System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch

There is even an example in the documenation that answers your question.

well you could have a global variable which holds a value, such as say a DateTime object - this datetime object will have seconds added it to it in the timer tick event (set the timer interval to 1000 ms for 1 second). Then when the button has been pressed, stop the timer and obtain the value from the global datetime object which is used to hold the seconds. Example:

private DateTime totalTime = new DateTime();

..

..

private void timer1_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

this.totalTime = this.totalTime.AddSeconds(1);

}

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

this.timer1.Stop();

MessageBox.Show(this.totalTime.ToString());

}

and thats it!

You should use the Stopwatch for this:

• System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch

There is even an example in the documenation that answers your question.

well you could have a global variable which holds a value, such as say a DateTime object - this datetime object will have seconds added it to it in the timer tick event (set the timer interval to 1000 ms for 1 second). Then when the button has been pressed, stop the timer and obtain the value from the global datetime object which is used to hold the seconds. Example:

private DateTime totalTime = new DateTime();

..

..

private void timer1_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

this.totalTime = this.totalTime.AddSeconds(1);

}

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

this.timer1.Stop();

MessageBox.Show(this.totalTime.ToString());

}

and thats it!