Halting processing for a specific time

[mike55]

Hi all

I am pooling a payments gateway looking for a response for a transaction. The payments gateway requires me to wait for 10 seconds between each pool, therefore I am considering using the following command:

System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(10000)

Will this work with a web page, or is there a better approach?

Mike55.

 

[TheWizardofInt]

 Dim dTime As Date = Now.AddSeconds(10)
       
 Do While Now < dTime

Loop

 

[PlausiblyDamp]

The Thread.Sleep will impact on system resources far less than the loop so out of the two I'd plump for that one.

Be aware though if you are doing this in the code behind a web page it will increase the time it takes to refresh the page and this could cause users to think it has hung.