can i get a tiny time interval like 0.01 ms?

Question

for some reason i need to ping every 0.01milli-second, but thread.sleep() or timer wont be able to do it, since sleep() only takes int, which means 1 milli-second or 0, and timer only takes 0 or 15.6247 milli-seconds.

any help? thanks~

Eric · Answer

Thanks lot! I am using 2.0 but I never know that class. The second way is what I am trying now but it does not work on different machines. orz

Alan · Answer

If you have .NET 2.0 or later then you should certainly be able to get down to a resolution of 10000 nanoseconds (1/100000th of a second) using the Stopwatch class: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.stopwatch.aspx Otherwise I'd use the age old method of a 'do nothing' for loop. Try and work out how many iterations could be done in 1 millisecond on your machine and then scale it down accordingly.