Create timer and start it and get its value at anytime c#

I want to create a timer and 开发者_开发知识库start it and gets its value at any time in C# and I want to know what it is, depending on, for example, is it by seconds or milliseconds or so forth.

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Are you looking for the Stopwatch class?

using System.Diagnostics;

// ...

var stopwatch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
// ...
var milliseconds = stopwatch.ElapsedMilliseconds;

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Have you looked at Stopwatch class?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.stopwatch.aspx

This is another link with some good examples: http://www.dotnetperls.com/stopwatch

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var start = Environment.TickCount;
// loop for 2 seconds
while(Environment.TickCount-start <2000)
{
    Console.Write(".");
}
Console.WriteLine("done");