C# timer (Slowing down a loop)

Question

Hi I am a newbee to c# so please forgive me. I would like to slow down a loop so that it loops every 5 seconds. In actionscript I would use a timer and timer complete event to do this. How would I go about it in c#? Any pointers appreciated

Answer 1

You can add this call inside your loop:

System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000); // 5,000 ms

However, if you application has a user interface you should never sleep on the foreground thread (the thread that processes the applications message loop).

Answer 2

You can try using Timer,

using System;

public class PortChat
{
    public static System.Timers.Timer _timer;
    public static void Main()
    {

        _timer = new System.Timers.Timer();
        _timer.Interval = 5000;
        _timer.Elapsed += new System.Timers.ElapsedEventHandler(_timer_Elapsed);
        _timer.Enabled = true;
        Console.ReadKey();
    }

    static void _timer_Elapsed(object sender, System.Timers.ElapsedEventArgs e)
    {
        //Do Your loop
    }
}

Also if your operation in loop can last more then 5 sec, You can set

 _timer.AutoReset = false;

to disable next timer tick until operation finish in loop
But then end end of loop You need again to enable timer like

 _timer.Enabled = true;

Answer 3

Don't use a loop at all. Set up a Timer object and react to it's fired event. Watch out because these events will fire on a different thread (the timer's thread from the threadpool).