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Pause / Stop a method

Chris

I have an application that searches through log files for a string match. Its not uncommon that I'm searching through hundreds of files at a time, and sometimes I want to pause or stop the search.

How can I implement a pause or stop function that pauses/stops the 'Search' method, for example?

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Chongo18y ago
You can use threads in the application, put the main app on one thread and the search on another. then from the main thred you can tell the search thread to sleep when you want it to pause.

System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(time);

MSDN: here
Thread Sleep: here