System.Timers.Timer vs System.Threading.Timer

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This article offers a fairly comprehensive explanation:

“Comparing the Timer Classes in the .NET Framework Class Library” – also available as a .chm file

The specific difference appears to be that System.Timers.Timer is geared towards multithreaded applications and is therefore thread-safe via its SynchronizationObject property, whereas System.Threading.Timer is ironically not thread-safe out-of-the-box.

I don’t believe that there is a difference between the two as it pertains to how small your intervals can be.

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