What's the best implemention for non-blocking wait/delay for a period of time in c#

Question

Currently I need to implement a simple non-blocking delay function in a Windows Store app project. This function should do nothing, just idle for a specific period of time witho

Answer 1

See Task.Delay

It schedules a task that completes at a future time using timer rather than blocking a thread.

An example that waits 5 seconds and then continues:

private async Task DelayThenDoSomeWork()
{
    await Task.Delay(5000);
    // Do something
    var dialog = new MessageDialog("Waiting completed.");
    await dialog.ShowAsync();
}