Force timer's tick (including async behavior)

Question

On my application I have a timer that checks for configuration updates from the server in a few minutes intervals.

The configuration retrieval is a pretty time consuming process, so I want to force the timer's "Tick" event, but I cannot just call the timer_tick(bla,bla,bla) because it will execute synchronously.

Is there a simple way to force the timer to "Tick" (without creating a new thread)? The behavior should "reset" the time-left of the timer (so, if originally the timer was set to 2 minutes interval and 1 minute already past - after forcing the "Tick" - the timer will start counting 2 minutes again)

Answer 1

change it's timeout value.

Answer 2

Within your consuming process your first step is just to disable the timer and the last step is to enable it again.

Maybe you just put this dis- and enable just before and after calling your long running process like this:

timer.Enabled = false;
LongRunningSyncProcess();
timer.Enabled = true;