How can I make my VB .Net program sleep for 5 minutes?

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Roger Solano

How can I make my VB .net program sleep or pause for say 5 minutes?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Roger
 
Herfried K. Wagner said:
'System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000)'.
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I think it's in milliseconds so 5 minutes would be
'System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(300000)' 'three hundred thousand ms.
 
Ricky
I think it's in milliseconds so 5 minutes would be
'System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(300000)' 'three hundred thousand ms.
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You know how fast Herfried is he post in a second what another does in a
minute.

:-)

Cor
 
Roger,

In additon to the others,

When you do this than mostly is adviced to use a timer or to use a different
thread. Because your program stops completly and your user cannot even
cancel it in a normal way.

An easy way to prevent that freezing is
For i = 1 to 300
threading.thread.sleep(i * 1000)
application.doevents
next
 
* "Ricky W. Hunt said:
I think it's in milliseconds so 5 minutes would be
'System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(300000)' 'three hundred thousand ms.
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Ooops. I mixed up 5 minutes with 5 seconds...
 
Herfried K. Wagner said:
Ooops. I mixed up 5 minutes with 5 seconds...
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Herfried, what does a program actually "do" during this sleep time? Is it
consuming any resources other than memory?
 
I wrote this, maybe make 50 more... like 100 or so

Sub Pause(ByVal pmTimeToPause As Double)

Dim iIndex As Int16
For iIndex = 1 To pmTimeToPause / 50
If g_bEnd = True Then Exit Sub

System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.Sleep(50)
Application.DoEvents()

Next

End Sub

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* "Ricky W. Hunt said:
Herfried, what does a program actually "do" during this sleep time? Is it
consuming any resources other than memory?
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It still uses its resources, but it doesn't get any processor time. So
the UI will be "locked" in this time.
 
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