thread control?

[enigma333]

I'm and trying to create a program flow as follows

Connect
if failed wait 30secs
else Continue
Retry Connect

if connected then process

basically i need to call a function that will retry a number of times at a particular info and then when it is successful resume the program flow.

I know a thread would do this with sleep but how do i prevent the program from continuing before connection has been made?

 

[chiph]

This really isn't a .NET specific question, more of a logic question. But I'll answer it anyway.

You need to do something like this:

iTryCount = 0
While iTryCount < 3
   If Not Connect() Then
      Sleep(30000) '1000 milliseconds per second
   Else
      bConnected = True
      Exit While
   End If
   iTryCount = iTryCount + 1
Wend
If Not bConnected Then
   'Return failed condition to calling function
Else
   'Return success condition to calling function
Endif

Chip H.

 

[enigma333]

Yes but I do not know how to do the sleep function other than thread.sleep .... so either I have to determine the main thread (not started by me) or use another method of sleep.
Thanks