How To Pause In .NET?

Joe Delphi · May 7, 2006

Hi,

Newbie question. I need to insert a 5 second delay into my code
before re-directing the user to a different page.

I need something like:

Wait(5) or Pause(5) or Delay(5)

Is there a command in .NET to handle this requirement ?

Jim

Ken Cox - Microsoft MVP · May 7, 2006

Hi Joe,

You're close, try

Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.threading.thread.sleep.aspx

Ken
Microsoft MVP [ASP.NET]

V · May 7, 2006

Thread.Sleep(5000).

- Vaibhav

Mark Rae · May 7, 2006

Newbie question. I need to insert a 5 second delay into my code
before re-directing the user to a different page.

Do you *really* need to do this...? Chances are that, unless you EXPLCITLY
tell the user that they're being made to wait 5 seconds, they'll think
something has gone wrong with your site and will start clicking buttons
again, hitting the back and/or refresh button etc...

John Timney \( MVP \) · May 7, 2006

Joe,

your after

Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000)

However, this kind of thing is always better done client side if you can get
away with it, releasing the server processing asap. You should consider
using a javascript redirect or a client side meta refresh rather than
hogging the worker thread for each user for five seconds on the server? On
a busy site, that can cause a lot of paused threads and a lot of tied up
resources.

--
Regards

John Timney
Microsoft MVP

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=F6ran_Andersson?= · May 7, 2006

No, that is not what you need to do. If you put a delay in your code it
will only mean that it takes five more seconds to create the page. In
the mean time the browser will just appear dead.

What you want to do is to send a page to the client that will redirect
after being displayed for five seconds.

You can do that using Javascript:

<body
onload="window.setTimeout('window.location=\'someotherpage.html\';',5000);">

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How To Pause In .NET?

Joe Delphi

Ken Cox - Microsoft MVP

V

Mark Rae

John Timney \( MVP \)

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