C# timer (slowing down a loop)

Question

I would like to slow down a loop so that it loops every 5 seconds.

In ActionScript, I would use a timer and a timer complete event to do this. How would I go about it in C#?

Answer 1

You can add this call inside your loop:

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

or preferable for better readability:

System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5));

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