System.timer doesnt throw events and console terminates immediatly

Question

I need a timer that executes every minute but i have trouble getting the timer to run at all with code that i used before. so i guess i am doing sth fundamentally wrong that is not code related but even in a just newly created Console project in visual studio community 2017 it doesn't execute the _timer_elapsed method. the console terminates immediately without errors as if it has executed every code

using System;
using System.Timers;

namespace Test
{
    class Program
    {

        static Timer _timer;

        public static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var timer = new Timer(60000);
            timer.Elapsed += new ElapsedEventHandler(_timer_Elapsed);
            timer.Enabled = true;
            _timer = timer;
        }
        static void _timer_Elapsed(object sender, ElapsedEventArgs e)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("test");
        }
    }
}

what am I missing here?

Answer 1

You need your program to stay alive, rather than return from Main. An quick and easy way to do this is to wait for some input at the end:

public static void Main(string[] args)
{
    var timer = new Timer(60000);
    timer.Elapsed += new ElapsedEventHandler(_timer_Elapsed);
    timer.Enabled = true;
    _timer = timer;

    Console.ReadLine();
}