How can I prevent my System.Timers.Timer from raising the Elapsed event after it got stopped?

Question

I have the followig code:

using (FileStream sourceStream = sourceFile.Open())
{
    using (FileStream targetStream = File.Create(targetFilePath))
    {
        using (Timer timer = new Timer(250))
        {
            timer.Elapsed += (sender, e) =>
            {
                if (this.FileCopyProgressChanged != null)
                {
                    //Here the ObjectDisposedException appears
                    this.FileCopyProgressChanged(this,
                        new CopyProgressEventArgs(
                            sourceStream.Length,
                            targetStream.Length));
                }
            };

            timer.Start();

            sourceStream.CopyTo(targetStream);

            timer.Stop();
        }
    }
}

My timer elapses every 250 milliseconds and raises an event with information about the stream copy progress. The problem is, that sometimes in the timer event, a ObjectDisposedException gets thrown, because the streams are not opened anymore.

How can I prevent my timer from raising the elapsed event after my streams are disposed?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 12 '11 at 06:58

Why not just do this, no timers required:

using (FileStream sourceStream = sourceFile.Open())
{
    using (FileStream targetStream = File.Create(targetFilePath))
    {
        int bytesTotal = sourceStream.Length;
        int bytesCurrent = 0;
        var buffer = new byte[32*1024];
        int bytes;
        while ((bytes = sourceStream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)) > 0)
        {
            targetStream.Write(buffer, 0, bytes);
            bytesCurrent += bytes;
            FileCopyProgressChanged(this,
                new CopyProgressEventArgs(bytesTotal, bytesCurrent));
        }
    }
}

How can I prevent my System.Timers.Timer from raising the Elapsed event after it got stopped?

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