Question

Is it possible to somehow return how many secs there are left on the Thread.Sleep?

Ive tried other ways with a while loop and Thread.Sleep() but never got it to work properly.

Basically i want to update a listview field with how much time there is left

Answer 1

While I agree with what vcsjones stated. The best way to do what you request

int millisecondsToSleep=2000;
while (milliseconds>0)
{
    Thread.Sleep(500);
    millisecondsToSleep=millisecondstoSleep-500;
    //alert yourself how much time you have left
    MessageBox.Show(millisecondsToSleep.ToString());
    //do something else if you wish
}

so this will sleep for half a second then send you an alert with how much time is left

As for a timer

            Timer myTimer = new Timer();
            myTimer.Interval = 2000; //2 seconds
            myTimer.Tick += new EventHandler(myTimer_Tick);// fires the myTimer_Tick event every 2 seconds