Sleep Method

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Suspends the current thread for a specified time.

Namespace:  System.Threading
Assembly:  mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Shared Sub Sleep ( _
    millisecondsTimeout As Integer _
)

public static void Sleep(
    int millisecondsTimeout
)

public:
static void Sleep(
    int millisecondsTimeout
)

static member Sleep : 
        millisecondsTimeout:int -> unit 

public static function Sleep(
    millisecondsTimeout : int
)

Parameters

• millisecondsTimeout
  Type: System. . :: . .Int32
  The number of milliseconds for which the thread is blocked. Specify zero (0) to indicate that this thread should be suspended to allow other waiting threads to execute. Specify Infinite to block the thread indefinitely.

Remarks

The thread will not be scheduled for execution by the operating system for the amount of time specified. This method changes the state of the thread to include WaitSleepJoin.

This method does not perform standard COM and SendMessage pumping.

.NET Framework Security

• Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see dd66cd4c-b087-415f-9c3e-94e3a1835f74.

See Also

Reference

Thread Class

System.Threading Namespace