SYSK 224: Why Join Is Better Than Sleep

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All the “best practices” I’ve seen recommend avoid calling System.Thread.CurrentThread.Sleep() method. Agreed; but there are some legitimate situations when you just have to block for a certain period of time… If that is the case, consider using System.Thread.CurrentThread.Join() instead – just like Sleep, it will blocks the calling thread until a thread terminates or the specified time elapses, but it will continue to perform standard COM and SendMessage pumping