Re: VB.Net Console app needs timer

On Jul 5, 3:08 pm, "Al G" <agerha...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Scott M." <quan...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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On Jul 5, 2:41 pm, "Egghead" <robertlo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Why not use the scheduler?

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RL"Scott M." <quan...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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Hi,

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.

The app coding so far is this;

'create file
My.Computer.FileSystem.WriteAllText("C:\Test.txt",
String.Empty, False)
'write file header
My.Computer.FileSystem.WriteAllText("C:\Test.txt", "Heartbeat
File" & vbCrLf, True)
'write current date/time to file
My.Computer.FileSystem.WriteAllText("C:\Test.txt", Now() &
vbCrLf, True)

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I am too new to VB2005 to know how to use it. Can you give me a hint?

Start Menu > Settings > Control Panel > Scheduled Tasks > Add Task...

Al G- Hide quoted text -

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Oh, that scheduler. I can use it to launch my tiny program, but I need
the program to write out my heartbeat file every ten minutes. I could
just as easily put my program in the startup folder.

.

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