DispatcherTimer When you want to set a timer working with GUI, you always come across threading problem. The problem is that if you want to send some changes to UI that is constantly/continuously changing then that will make your UI unresponsive or in other words it will hang your UI. To overcome from this situation, WPF gives us DispatcherTimer threading functionality that will take care of such continuously changing processing on UI thread and that will not hang your UI. We can accomplish same scenario in Win Form , through System.Windows.Forms.Timer and in WPF it is System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherTimer . Difference between DispatcherTimer and Regular timer (System.Timers.Timer) DispatcherTimer is the regular timer. It fires its Tick event on the UI thread, you can do anything you want with the UI. System.Timers.Timer is an asynchronous timer, its Elapsed event runs on a thread pool thread. You have to be very careful in your event handler...
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