title: How to trigger a timer tick programmatically?
body: <p>Let's say I have a Windows Forms timer configured with a 10 second (10k ms) interval:</p>
  
  <pre><code>myTimer.Interval = 10000;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want to start it and fire off the <code>Tick</code> event right away:</p>
  
  <pre><code>myTimer.Start();
  myTimer_Tick(null, null);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The last line works but is there a better or more appropriate way?</p>