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[martin]

Getting timer messages into an ATL object isn't all that evident. If you create a full control and it remains invisible in runtime, it has no windows handle, so you can't use the classical ::SetTimer(hWnd,...) to get the timer messages.

The trick is to create another ATL window object that does absolutely nothing but create a window and get these messages. Then have the timer message handler call whatever method you want in your "real" ATL object. [full article]