Wait for a while without blocking main thread

Question

I wish my method to wait about 500 ms and then check if some flag has changed. How to complete this without blocking the rest of my application?

Answer 1

It the method in question is executing on a different thread than the rest of your application, then do the following:

Thread.Sleep(500);

Answer 2

You can use await Task.Delay(500); without blocking the thread like Sleep does, and with a lot less code than a Timer.

Answer 3

System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(500);

Update

This won't block the rest of your application, just the thread that is running your method.

Answer 4

Asynchron Task:

 var task = new Task (() => function_test()); task.Start();

public void function_test() { `Wait for 5000 miliseconds`   Task.Delay(5000);` }

Answer 5

Using a timer should do the trick

if you need to use a thread then here is an example

void Main()
{
    System.Threading.Thread check= new System.Threading.Thread(CheckMethod);
    check.Start();
}

private void CheckMethod()
{
     //Code
     Thread.Sleep(500);
}

Answer 6

I don't really understand the question.

If you want to block before checking, use Thread.Sleep(500);

If you want to check asynchronously every x seconds, you can use a Timer to execute a handler every x milliseconds.

This will not block your current thread.