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  • Roger Solano
    #1

    How can I make my VB .Net program sleep for 5 minutes?

    How can I make my VB .net program sleep or pause for say 5 minutes?

    Any help would be much appreciated.

    Roger


    Tags: sleep vb 08, vb sleep
    • Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
      #2
      Re: How can I make my VB .Net program sleep for 5 minutes?

      * "Roger Solano" <rsolano@cobeca .com> scripsit:[color=blue]
      > How can I make my VB .net program sleep or pause for say 5 minutes?[/color]

      'System.Threadi ng.Thread.Sleep (5000)'.

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      M S Herfried K. Wagner
      M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
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        • Ricky W. Hunt
          #3
          Re: How can I make my VB .Net program sleep for 5 minutes?

          "Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hirf-spam-me-here@gmx.at> wrote in message
          news:%236hyiJ8j EHA.2908@tk2msf tngp13.phx.gbl. ..[color=blue]
          > * "Roger Solano" <rsolano@cobeca .com> scripsit:[color=green]
          > > How can I make my VB .net program sleep or pause for say 5 minutes?[/color]
          >
          > 'System.Threadi ng.Thread.Sleep (5000)'.[/color]

          I think it's in milliseconds so 5 minutes would be
          'System.Threadi ng.Thread.Sleep (300000)' 'three hundred thousand ms.


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            • Cor Ligthert
              #4
              Re: How can I make my VB .Net program sleep for 5 minutes?

              Ricky[color=blue]
              >
              > I think it's in milliseconds so 5 minutes would be
              > 'System.Threadi ng.Thread.Sleep (300000)' 'three hundred thousand ms.[/color]

              You know how fast Herfried is he post in a second what another does in a
              minute.

              :-)

              Cor


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                • Cor Ligthert
                  #5
                  Re: How can I make my VB .Net program sleep for 5 minutes?

                  Roger,

                  In additon to the others,

                  When you do this than mostly is adviced to use a timer or to use a different
                  thread. Because your program stops completly and your user cannot even
                  cancel it in a normal way.

                  An easy way to prevent that freezing is
                  For i = 1 to 300
                  threading.threa d.sleep(i * 1000)
                  application.doe vents
                  next
                  [color=blue]
                  > How can I make my VB .net program sleep or pause for say 5 minutes?
                  >
                  > Any help would be much appreciated.
                  >
                  > Roger
                  >
                  >[/color]


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                    • Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
                      #6
                      Re: How can I make my VB .Net program sleep for 5 minutes?

                      * "Ricky W. Hunt" <rhunt22@hotmai l.com> scripsit:[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
                      >>> How can I make my VB .net program sleep or pause for say 5 minutes?[/color]
                      >>
                      >> 'System.Threadi ng.Thread.Sleep (5000)'.[/color]
                      >
                      > I think it's in milliseconds so 5 minutes would be
                      > 'System.Threadi ng.Thread.Sleep (300000)' 'three hundred thousand ms.[/color]

                      Ooops. I mixed up 5 minutes with 5 seconds...

                      --
                      M S Herfried K. Wagner
                      M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
                      V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

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                        • Ricky W. Hunt
                          #7
                          Re: How can I make my VB .Net program sleep for 5 minutes?

                          "Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hirf-spam-me-here@gmx.at> wrote in message
                          news:ewzPieBkEH A.2340@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
                          > * "Ricky W. Hunt" <rhunt22@hotmai l.com> scripsit:[color=green][color=darkred]
                          > >>> How can I make my VB .net program sleep or pause for say 5 minutes?
                          > >>
                          > >> 'System.Threadi ng.Thread.Sleep (5000)'.[/color]
                          > >
                          > > I think it's in milliseconds so 5 minutes would be
                          > > 'System.Threadi ng.Thread.Sleep (300000)' 'three hundred thousand ms.[/color]
                          >
                          > Ooops. I mixed up 5 minutes with 5 seconds...[/color]

                          Herfried, what does a program actually "do" during this sleep time? Is it
                          consuming any resources other than memory?


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                            • _IS_ -
                              #8
                              Re: How can I make my VB .Net program sleep for 5 minutes?

                              I wrote this, maybe make 50 more... like 100 or so

                              Sub Pause(ByVal pmTimeToPause As Double)

                              Dim iIndex As Int16
                              For iIndex = 1 To pmTimeToPause / 50
                              If g_bEnd = True Then Exit Sub

                              System.Threadin g.Thread.Curren tThread.Sleep(5 0)
                              Application.DoE vents()

                              Next

                              End Sub

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                                • Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
                                  #9
                                  Re: How can I make my VB .Net program sleep for 5 minutes?

                                  * "Ricky W. Hunt" <rhunt22@hotmai l.com> scripsit:[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
                                  >>>>> How can I make my VB .net program sleep or pause for say 5 minutes?
                                  >>>>
                                  >>>> 'System.Threadi ng.Thread.Sleep (5000)'.
                                  >>>
                                  >>> I think it's in milliseconds so 5 minutes would be
                                  >>> 'System.Threadi ng.Thread.Sleep (300000)' 'three hundred thousand ms.[/color]
                                  >>
                                  >> Ooops. I mixed up 5 minutes with 5 seconds...[/color]
                                  >
                                  > Herfried, what does a program actually "do" during this sleep time? Is it
                                  > consuming any resources other than memory?[/color]

                                  It still uses its resources, but it doesn't get any processor time. So
                                  the UI will be "locked" in this time.

                                  --
                                  M S Herfried K. Wagner
                                  M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
                                  V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

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