Delay an application in vb.net

Question

Hey I am new to Visual Studio 2012 (I'm using vb.net) and is there any way to delay the macro for a certain amount of time? I have tried "Application.Wait" but it doesn't work.

Answer 1

Assuming you're only using a single thread...

Imports System.Threading 'Credit to @Force - thank you

Thread.Sleep(ms)

I'm not sure if you're looking for something that simple or not.

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Or you can add:

Public Declare Sub Sleep Lib "kernel32.dll" (ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long)

And simply call Sleep(ms).

'ms' being the number of milliseconds you want to wait (1000ms = 1 second).

Answer 2

Unless you want to freeze your UI, it's not a good practice to sleep the main thread. Instead put your delay in a separate thread, and delay only on the separate thread. Better yet, put some loader/progress indicator to let the user know, that some background process is running.