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Lou
Ho can get my background thread sleep the _DoWork sub.
I have a loop in there doing some polling

Private Sub MyThread_DoWork()

Do
Get some data
Sleep here
Loop

End Sub
Oct 11 '07 #1
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On Oct 10, 8:37 pm, "Lou" <lou.gar...@comcast.netwrote:
Ho can get my background thread sleep the _DoWork sub.
I have a loop in there doing some polling

Private Sub MyThread_DoWork()

Do
Get some data
Sleep here
Loop

End Sub
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep (milliseconds)

HTH,

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Tom Shelton

Oct 11 '07 #2

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