Take the 2-minute tour ×  How can I set a timer on my asp.net
page so that it will pause/wait for few seconds (say 5 seconds)
then do rest of stuff in the code?   share|improve this question
What exactly do you want to do? Add delay on client side (in
browser) or on server side? –  Marek Kwiendacz Dec 6 '10 at
16:05 Why would you let your user have to wait for 5 seconds?
ASP.NET simply needs to do the calculations + rendering on the
server, spitting it out as html to the browser. Ajax was
introduced to provide users with a faster system of displaying
data. This is quite opposite of what endusers want. –  XIII Dec
6 '10 at 16:06 I hope this is for some proof-of-concept and not
real-work application. If you are releasing this into the wild,
let me know what site so I can avoid it! –  Brad Dec 6 '10 at
16:07 Like @Korin said, we need to know what exactly you're
trying to accomplish because it can be done either server side
or client side. It would be helpful to know WHY you need to wait
to figure out what the mo