Hey, you should tell us whether you are working on a Windows Application
or Web Application.
For a Windows Application, the Timer control works like the one in VB6, so
no one should have problem with that (because I tried it before).
For a Web Application, it is a totally different story, as the Timer
Control doesn't work at all!!!
Therefore, here I suggest 3 ways that you can use instead.
1. Use the Timer control in a Windows Application instead.
2a. In a Web Application's Web Form, you can use client-side JavaScript on
the page in an (tiny/almost hidden)IFrame to refresh the page in the
IFrame every hour.
e.g.
<script language=javascript>
setTimeout('location.reload()',3600000)
</script>
2b. or place the following code between the <HEAD> & </HEAD> tags.
<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" content="3600; URL=[name of you form].aspx">
which can also refresh the page in the IFrame every hour.
Of course, in the Page_Load event of the page that is to be refreshed, you
must place those code (previously in you Timer function).
3. You could create a service that uses a Timer to periodically send email.
(Server-based timer is an update of the traditional timer that has been
optimized to run in a server environment.)
Previous message:
> Could anyone direct me to some code to use the Timer() function.
I> want to send an email every hour and am have trouble
> I tried something like this
> i = 1
> Do While i=1 ' do it forever
> t = Timer()+600
> Do While t >Timer()
> ' do email send function
> Loop
> Loop
> but timer() never updates.
> Any suggestions?
T> hank You
C> huck 
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