There are ways around this limitation, which is due (in part) to the low priority of timer msgs in the OS que (lower than paint msgs).Originally Posted by JVene
We use XP Embedded based industrial PCs to monitor heavy machinery in real time and so require finer/more reliable time resolutions than the >10ms Windows provides.
I used to be like you when I first started programming.
Ewwww! MFC I don't need the bloat to do something I can hand code!
VB is the spawn of satan and only used by those who can't write REAL code!
Then my programming skills matured and I came to understand that a good programmer uses the right technology for the task at hand and mixes them when you have to.
Why spend a day coding/testing that app in WIN32 when I can do it in VB in a hour?
I suppose it is different when it is your living, to just playing around trying to be 'leet.