c# pause within catch statement not working

Question

I have a try/catch block and within catch am trying to apply a pause but no matter what method I try (pause, threadsleep) it simply continues. and ignores all pauses in the mainblock. Is this a .NET bug?

catch (Exception ex)
{
    if (maxDelay < 1)
    maxDelay = 1;
    newpause(maxDelay);
    // Pause(maxDelay * 60);
    Current = "Error:" + txt;
    LogUpdater.UpdateLog(f, "Error sending : " + txt + ".");
    System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(10);
    bw.ReportProgress(1);

 }

 public void newpause(int maxDelay)
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < 60; i++)
        {
            System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(maxDelay*1000);
            Application.DoEvents();
        }
    }

Answer 1

Your passing one/tenth of a second.

Your only passing 10 milliseconds, 1000 would be 1 second.

System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000); // One Second.

Answer 2

Please try running following code. It works on my side.

 class PauseExample
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            int a = 90;
            int b = 0;

            try
            {
                int c = a / b;
            }
            catch
            {
                Console.WriteLine("In catch");

                System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000); //waits for 5 seconds

                Console.WriteLine("Out of catch");
            }
        }
    }

Let me know if this helps!