Countdown app for DevDays

Peter Stegnar — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:00:59 GMT

On meta.stackoverflow.com Joel announced a need for countdown application for the coming DevDays, as I am planing to attend one, I have decided to make one. Maybe I will watch my counter at the conference. ;)

It looks like:

Source code: PeterStegnarDevDaysCountdown.zip (198.51 KB)

I have used WPF, .NET 3.5. The speciality of this solution is custom Stackoverflow digits. :)

Short manual:
-you can find exe in "PeterStegnarDevDaysCountdown\WPF_StackoverflowCountDown\bin\Debug"
-start the app with the following parameters, for example: 0900 "DevDays begins in %s"
-just hit an "Esc" key to exit

Core functionalitiy is, of course, countdown:

 if (second
!= 0)
{ second--; } else {
second = 59; if (minute
!= 0)
{ minute--; } else {
minute = 59; if (hour
!= 0)
{ hour--; } else { throw new ArgumentNullException("No
valid time entry!"); } } }

What do you think?

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Countdown app for DevDays