Elapsed Property
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Stopwatch.Elapsed Property

[ This article is for Windows Phone 8 developers. If you’re developing for Windows 10, see the latest documentation. ]

Gets the total elapsed time measured by the current instance.

Namespace:  System.Diagnostics
Assembly:  System (in System.dll)

public TimeSpan Elapsed { get; }

Property Value

Type: System.TimeSpan
Returns TimeSpan.

In a typical Stopwatch scenario, you call the Start() method, then eventually call the Stop() method, and then you check elapsed time using the Elapsed property.

Use the Elapsed property to retrieve the elapsed time value using TimeSpan methods and properties. For example, you can format the returned TimeSpan instance into a text representation, or pass it to another class that requires a TimeSpan parameter.

You can query the Elapsed, ElapsedMilliseconds, and ElapsedTicks properties while the Stopwatch instance is running or stopped. The elapsed time properties steadily increase while the Stopwatch is running; they remain constant when the instance is stopped.

By default, the elapsed time value of a Stopwatch instance equals the total of all measured time intervals. Each call to Start begins counting at the cumulative elapsed time; each call to Stop ends the current interval measurement and freezes the cumulative elapsed time value. Use the Reset() method to clear the cumulative elapsed time in an existing Stopwatch instance.

Windows Phone OS

Supported in: 8.1, 8.0, 7.1, 7.0

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