Fun with Stopwatch

Just for fun…

   1: public class MinimumExecuteTimer

   2:     : IDisposable

   3: {

   4:     private Stopwatch Stopwatch { get; set; }

   5:     private TimeSpan MinimumExecutionTime { get; set; }

   6:  

   7:     public MinimumExecuteTimer(TimeSpan minimumExecuteTime)

   8:     {

   9:         MinimumExecutionTime = minimumExecuteTime;

  10:         Stopwatch = new Stopwatch();

  11:         Stopwatch.Start();

  12:     }

  13:  

  14:     #region IDisposable Members

  15:  

  16:     public void Dispose()

  17:     {

  18:         Stopwatch.Stop();

  19:         TimeSpan sleepTime = MinimumExecutionTime.Subtract(Stopwatch.Elapsed);

  20:  

  21:         if (sleepTime.TotalMilliseconds > 0)

  22:         {

  23:             Thread.Sleep(sleepTime);

  24:         }

  25:     }

  26:  

  27:     #endregion

  28: }

So, now I can ensure an operation will always take at least XX time to execute.

   1: public void DoWork()

   2: {

   3:     using(new MinimumExecuteTimer(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10)))

   4:     {

   5:         // do something, block will hang 

   6:         // for the time remaining

   7:     }

   8: }

“Why would you do this in production?” you ask…

Good question, none that I can think of right now.  I wrote the class to test what a Login form would look like while validating to a service call that took extremely long to execute.