Using Sleep Delay in C on Windows IoT

Question

I'm trying to program a stepper motor in C# using Visual Studio. I have it connected to a Raspberry Pi 2 running Windows 10 IoT Core.

Motor: HSY214 - F0.8 A NEMA8 - Steppermotor
Driver: A4988

I need to write a time-bound code for a background application but sleep and delay are missing, and I'm only being able to program via Remote-Debug. Just somehow, even System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(time) is not available. I also tried to use a timer but the time being different between each step makes it difficult to implement. Like, there are 5 steps that go fast, then 2 steps go slow, then 5 steps fast again, 2 steps slow again and so on.So, can someone please guide me or point me in the right direction so as to how I could program the motor correctly?

Answer 1

You'll be glad to know that C# support for Software PWM and Hardware PWM has finally been added to the iot-devices project(https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.threading.tasks.task.delay?redirectedfrom=MSDN&view=netframework-4.7.2#System_Threading_Tasks_Task_Delay_System_Int32_). So, you can, now, implement functions similar to the Thread.Sleep using System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Delay(https://github.com/jbienzms/iot-devices).