Thread: Sleep: make the thread to sleep

Thread class provides 'Sleep' method, it makes the thread to sleep for given amount of time.

'Sleep' method is available in following two overloaded forms.

Sleep(Int32)

Sleep(TimeSpan)

Example

Thread.Sleep(1000); // Sleep for 1 seconds

Thread.Sleep(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(3)); // Sleep for 3 seconds

Program.cs

using System.Threading;
using System;

namespace ThreadingTutorial
{
    class HelloWorld
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Thread t1 = new Thread(print);

            t1.Name = "Thread1";

            t1.Start();
           
        }

        public static void print()
        {
            Console.WriteLine(Thread.CurrentThread.Name  + " Executing");
            Thread.Sleep(1000); // Sleep for 1 seconds
            Thread.Sleep(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(3)); // Sleep for 3 seconds
            Console.WriteLine(Thread.CurrentThread.Name + " Finished execution");
        }
    }
}

Output

Thread1 Executing

Thread1 Finished execution

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