Simple, non-blocking way to sleep?

Question

I googled for this and read some threads here, but I haven't found a simple way to have a VB.Net application sleep for a little while and still keep the application responsive:

Imports System.Net
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Text
Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions
Imports System.Threading.Thread

[...]

''#How to keep screen frop freezing?
While True
  ListBox1.Items.Clear()

  ListBox1.Items.Add("blah")

  ''#Not much difference
  ListBox1.Refresh()

  ''#Wait 1mn
  Sleep(60000)
End While

Is there really no simple, non-blocking solution to have a VB.Net application wait for a few seconds?

Thank you.

Answer 1

How about this simple piece of code - :)

Private Async Sub Button10_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button10.Click
        MsgBox("This msgbox is shown immidiatly. click OK and hover mouse over other controls to see if UI is freezed")
        Await Task.Delay(5000)
        MsgBox("see? UI did'nt freez :). Notice the keyword 'Async' between Private and Sub")
    End Sub

Use Async on declared sub and then put Await Task.Delay(milliseconds) instead of Thread.Sleep(milliseconds)