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How to 'wait' and do nothing VB.NET 2005

Tags: wait, 2005
i have a timer that ticks once a second, and with each tick,
MasterTimer = MasterTimer + 1   (a public variable)


there is a place in my code where I need to simply wait for 5 seconds and do absolutely nothing.
I'm using this code:

timemark = mastertimer +5
Do While MasterTimer <= TimeMark
           Application.DoEvents()
Loop

The problem is (and ironically)...this is where my app is supposed to do nothing, but in task manager, it is doing 99% of my CPU during that 5 seconds.  What am I doing wrong?  I want to wait for 5 seconds,  (but I need my timers ticking during this time), and I don't want a 99% CPU hit .
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Zone: Programming
Question Asked By: arthurh88
Solution Provided By: angelIII
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hreading.Thread.Sleep(5000)  seems to work in my version of vb2005
 
 
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