Well, that's not that hard to do. What you want to do is add a Timer to your form and set it's Interval to 1000 ms (equals 1 sec).
(An article on Timer's can be found here:
Pre-beginner's guide to using a timer[
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Then, when it ticks, you start up a BackgroundWorker and tell it to do what you want. I suggest looking up BackgroundWorker on google, or in the articles here. A good start might be:
BackgroundWorker Threads and Supporting Cancel[
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or here:
Beginners Guide To Threading In .NET Part 5 of n[
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The BackgroundWorker is a bit much to get into in a quick answer, but there is a ton of information available on the web.