Sleep or Wait functions in ASP.NET

[TheMajorRager]

Hello everyone, I was wondering are there any functions in ASP.NET that will allow you to pause for a few seconds like a sleep or wait function. Thanks TheMajorRager

[Jared Parsons]

Do you mean paues on the client or the server? If you're talking about pausing on the server then Thread.Sleep() might be what you're looking for. I'm sure there is a javascript equivalent for the client as well. Can you give us some more context as to what you are trying to achieve? Jared Parsons jaredp@beanseed.org http://spaces.msn.com/members/jaredp/

[Colin Angus Mackay]

TheMajorRager wrote:

I was wondering are there any functions in ASP.NET that will allow you to pause for a few seconds like a sleep or wait function

Not in the ASP.NET framework per se*. However, in the .NET framework (of which ASP.NET is a subset) there is [Thread.Sleep()](http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemthreadingthreadclasssleeptopic.asp)[[^](http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemthreadingthreadclasssleeptopic.asp "New Window")] * Sorry, just being pedantic

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[Dave Kreskowiak]

Why would you want the server to sleep in the middle of building an HTML page for the client?? RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

[Reanalyse]

Do you want to wait for some external process - or for an internal process to complete. If the latter you will need to look at threading and suspending a thread until an event or trigger occurs.