I have a method which should be delayed from running for a specified amount of time. Should I use Thread thread = new Thread(() => { Thread.Sleep(millisecond); action(); }); thread.IsBackgroun...

I am in desperate need of help, I need to manage an application dependency in Visual Studio. The application links to a DLL only on a specific version of windows, lets say Windows 7. and on other e...

I have an NServiceBus application for which a given message may not be processed due to some external event not having taken place. Because this other event is not an NSB event I can't implement sa...

I have a DAL that is composed of a bunch of methods that perform LINQ queries on my database. How do I ensure that before returning say an IEnumberable or something similar from the database, I en...

I have a method that 'has no translation to SQL' that I want to perform on an IQueryable, is there a way to force the IQueryable to execute without having to store it in some intermediate class?

What is the best way to stop bots, malicious users, etc. from executing php scripts too fast? Is it ok if I use the usleep() or sleep() functions to simply do "nothing" for a while (just before the...