Alternate to Thread.Sleep

Thread.Sleep is actually used to block the thread Temporarily for an interval. Async CTP brings forth one probable alternative if you dont want to write yourself :

TaskEx.Delay(milliseconds)

Probably in next release it will be Task.Delay(milliseconds) This works little different as it can work with await, but you can easily put a Task.Wait to get similar result as Thread.Sleep.

Task t = TaskEx.Delay(500);
t.Wait()

is same as

Thread.Sleep(500)

Check my whole article C# 5.0 vNext - New Asynchronous Pattern[^]