Probably you missed some steps in setting up the timer. Give us the steps you carried out upto now. Oh and tell us if it is a MFC or Win32 Application.

The code is written in VC++ .NET. In my procedures, I call
CmdAckTimer->Start(); // Start timer
CmdAckTimer->Stop(); // Stop timer

static System::Windows::Forms::Timer * CmdAckTimer;

//
// CmdAckTimer
//
this->CmdAckTimer->Interval = 5000; // 5 sec
this->CmdAckTimer->Tick += new System::EventHandler(this, CmdAckTimer_Tick);


void Test::CmdAckTimer_Tick(System::Object * sender, System::EventArgs * e)
{
CmdAckTimer->Stop();
txtStats->Text=String::Concat (S"CmdAckTimer->Stop", S"\r\n",txtStats->Text);
txtStats->Text=String::Concat (S"Error: Cmd Ack Timer timed out ", DateTime::Now.ToLongTimeString(),S"\r\n",txtStats->Text);
}

I dont know much on Windows Forms Applications, but at first glance everything looks okay to me. But where do you call the CmdAckTimer->Start() method? Dont you have to call it here?


and inside the TimerEventHandler

Check it out.

I make the Start() call in my Button click event. One thing I noticed was that the timer works in an event, but not in a static function.