Using schedulers in Rx

Sometimes, we need to have an IObservable subscription run at a specific time. Imagine having to synchronize events across servers in different geographical areas and time zones. You might also need to read data from a queue while preserving the order in which the events occur. Another example would be to perform some kind of I/O task that could take some time to complete. Schedulers come in very handy in these situations.

Getting ready

Additionally, you can consider reading up more on using schedulers on MSDN. Take a look at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh242963(v=vs.103).aspx.

How to do it...

1. If you haven't already done so, create a new Windows form application and call it winformRx. Open the form designer and in Toolbox, search for the TextBox control and add it to your form.

 

2. Next, add a label control to your form.

3. Double-click on your Windows form designer to create the onload event handler. Inside this handler, add some code to read the text entered into...