VB.Net Console app needs timer

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RE: VB.Net Console app needs timer

I would just add the 1 line of code below to make it "sleep" for a certain
amount of milliseconds. 600,000 milliseconds is approx. 10 minutes.

System.Threadin g.Thread.Sleep( 600000)


"Scott M." wrote:

Hi,
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I'm an old VB6 guy just starting out in VB.Net using Visual Studio
Express. I want to build a simple console app that will create a
simple text file every 10 minutes. I can create the file OK, but how
do I put in the timer so that I can write the file on schedule? The
idea behind this project is to help me monitor remote computers in a
production environment to make sure that they are up and running. I
currently synchronize files on them using DriveHQ.com. What I want to
do is be able to examine my DriveHQ account and see, from what I write
in the text file, that my systems are up and running.
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The app coding so far is this;
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'create file
My.Computer.Fil eSystem.WriteAl lText("C:\Test. txt",
String.Empty, False)
'write file header
My.Computer.Fil eSystem.WriteAl lText("C:\Test. txt", "Heartbeat
File" & vbCrLf, True)
'write current date/time to file
My.Computer.Fil eSystem.WriteAl lText("C:\Test. txt", Now() &
vbCrLf, True)
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>
Scott
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