Why does Thread.Sleep() freeze the Form?

Question

I try to experiment with Thread.Sleep(). I created basic Windows Forms application with one button.

    private void button1_Click(object sender, Ev         


        

Answer 1

EDIT: After programming for a few more years, I now know how terrible of a practice this is. DO NOT DO ANYTHING I SUGGESTED BELOW. It's all crap. A more proper solution would be doing all of your intensive methods async all together. Regardless, don't do what I mention below.

All The methods above do work however, I do recommend just using an async void.
Sleep() just pauses the current thread for int amount of milliseconds, and if your whole program runs off of 1 thread, it'll pause the whole program. Don't quote me on this, I do believe that async creates a new thread specifically for that function.

Below I've included a better sleep function.

To call the function asleep(milliseconds), replace "milliseconds" with how many milliseconds you wish to sleep for.

Function Code:

public async void asleep(int time){
    await Task.Delay(time)
}