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How to used AJAX Timer Control in ASP.Net?


Timer control in ASP.NET is an AJAX control. The Timer use the Tick event for show the time. You will set the Interval of timer.

Interval="1000"
Here
1000 Milliseconds = 1 Second

Timer controls allow you to do postbacks at certain intervals. If used together with UpdatePanels, which is the most common approach, it allows for timed partial updates of your page, but it can be used for posting back the entire page as well.


Here is a small example of using the Timer control. It simply updates a timestamp every second starting from page load.

HTML

Here we have a normal UpdatePanel, which carries a Trigger reference to our Timer control. This means that the panel is updated when the Timer "ticks", that is, fires the Tick event.

The Timer control uses the interval attribute to define the number of milliseconds to occur before firing the Tick event.

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head runat="server">

<title>Untitled Page</title>

</head>

<body>

<form id="form1" runat="server">

<div>

<asp:ScriptManager ID="ScriptManager1" runat="server" />

<asp:Timer runat="server" ID="Timer1" Interval="1000" OnTick="Timer1_Tick" />

<asp:UpdatePanel runat="server" ID="TimedPanel" UpdateMode="Conditional">

<Triggers>

<asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger ControlID="Timer1" EventName="Tick" />

</Triggers>

<ContentTemplate>

<div style="width: 100px; background-color: #CCCCCC; text-align: center;border: 1px solid black;">

<asp:Label runat="server" ID="DateStampLabel" Font-Bold="True" Font-Names="Calibri" ForeColor="red" Font-Size="16pt" />

</div>

</ContentTemplate>

</asp:UpdatePanel>

</div>

</form>

</body>

</html>

Code

dtStart get time when your page load and every interval dt get new time. Shows the difference between both times.

static DateTime dtStart =System.DateTime.Now;

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

}

protected void Timer1_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

DateTime dt = System.DateTime.Now;

TimeSpan ts = dt.Subtract(dtStart);

DateStampLabel.Text = ts.Hours.ToString("00")

+ " : " + ts.Minutes.ToString("00")

+ " : " + ts.Seconds.ToString("00");

}

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