How to check is timer enabled/disabled?

Question

I tried the below but it won't work for me.

if (MyTimer.Enabled)
{
    continue;
}
else 
{
    break;
}

I want to break the for loop if the timer is over.

Answer 1

you can break your loop as written below. The while loop will break as soon as the timer time elapsed.

    private static System.Timers.Timer MyTimer;
    static bool runningloop;
    public static void Main()
    {
        runningloop=true;
        MyTimer = new System.Timers.Timer();
        MyTimer.Interval = 2000;
        MyTimer.Elapsed += OnTimedEvent;
        MyTimer.Enabled = true;

        // If the timer is declared in a long-running method, use KeepAlive to prevent garbage collection
        // from occurring before the method ends. 
        //GC.KeepAlive(MyTimer) 

        while(runningloop)
        {
          //do your work here
        }
    }

    private static void OnTimedEvent(Object source, System.Timers.ElapsedEventArgs e)
    {
        runningloop=false;
    }

Reference here