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

Any help would be much appreciated.

Roger

* "Roger Solano" <(E-Mail Removed)> scripsit:
> How can I make my VB .net program sleep or pause for say 5 minutes?

'System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000)'.

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"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hirf-spam-me-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> * "Roger Solano" <(E-Mail Removed)> scripsit:
> > How can I make my VB .net program sleep or pause for say 5 minutes?
>
> 'System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000)'.

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.

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

> How can I make my VB .net program sleep or pause for say 5 minutes?
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Roger
>
>

* "Ricky W. Hunt" <(E-Mail Removed)> scripsit:
>>> How can I make my VB .net program sleep or pause for say 5 minutes?
>>
>> 'System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000)'.
>
> I think it's in milliseconds so 5 minutes would be
> 'System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(300000)' 'three hundred thousand ms.

Ooops. I mixed up 5 minutes with 5 seconds...

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"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hirf-spam-me-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> * "Ricky W. Hunt" <(E-Mail Removed)> scripsit:
> >>> How can I make my VB .net program sleep or pause for say 5 minutes?
> >>
> >> 'System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000)'.
> >
> > I think it's in milliseconds so 5 minutes would be
> > 'System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(300000)' 'three hundred thousand ms.
>
> Ooops. I mixed up 5 minutes with 5 seconds...

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" <(E-Mail Removed)> scripsit:
>>>>> How can I make my VB .net program sleep or pause for say 5 minutes?
>>>>
>>>> 'System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000)'.
>>>
>>> I think it's in milliseconds so 5 minutes would be
>>> 'System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(300000)' 'three hundred thousand ms.
>>
>> Ooops. I mixed up 5 minutes with 5 seconds...
>
> Herfried, what does a program actually "do" during this sleep time? Is it
> consuming any resources other than memory?

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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M S Herfried K. Wagner
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