What is the best way to wait in C#?

Question

I am making a console application that is to execute only a couple of commands such as whoami . The issue i am coming up against is how to make Please wait... Wait X (eg 5) seconds without halting the thread, then continue

Answer 1

You can use a one-shot timer to do it. For example:

static int main(...)
{
    System.Threading.Timer clearTimer = new System.Threading.Timer(
        (s) => { Console.Clear(); },
        null,
        5000,
        Timeout.Infinite);
    // do other stuff
}

That creates a timer that will fire once after five seconds.