Ping Problems

[Asprisa]

Hi Guys,

I am developing a small app just to check our servers are still online, at the moment i have got the my.computer.net work.ping pinging 12 of our servers and changing a label to say either server online or server offline, i am trying to get this to happen every 15 seconds, i have tried loops etc but it freezes the app, i came across application.doe vents which enabled the form to load without freezing. I was wondering if someone knows of a better way of doing this without the app freezing.

Cheers!

Jay!

[Plater]

Use the System.Threadin g.Timer object.

[pootle]

Hi Guys,

I am developing a small app just to check our servers are still online, at the moment i have got the my.computer.net work.ping pinging 12 of our servers and changing a label to say either server online or server offline, i am trying to get this to happen every 15 seconds, i have tried loops etc but it freezes the app, i came across application.doe vents which enabled the form to load without freezing. I was wondering if someone knows of a better way of doing this without the app freezing.

Cheers!

Jay!

Hi Jay,

It probably "freezes" the app because you are doing everything from the main thread - the one that also manages the GUI. Have you tried making the pings in seperate threads?

Regards.

[Asprisa]

Hi Guys!

I have tried playing with the Use the System.Threadin g.Timer object and it seemed unsuccessful. I have moved the ping code into a sperate function and am calling the function from the form load, the first ping works fine, the app takes a little time to load but when i loop the code after a timer etc.. the app freezes until the loop has continued, this is not an issue if all i was going to do was loop the code but i wish to do more with the app and i cannot allow it to freeze, any suggestions guys! and thanks for your input so far, very useful learning for me!

Regards

Jay!

[Plater]

Well the System.Threadin g.Timer is different then the other timer object, this one actually creates/runs in its own thread. If you tried that Timer (not the timer you drag/drop on the GUI designer) and it didn't work, you might have to go with full on threads.