Wait set time for user input C# console app

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Published on 2010-04-26T15:31:50Z Indexed on 2010/04/26 17:43 UTC
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For a Console app, I need to know how to wait at set amount of time (about 10 seconds), for a user to input a key or set of keys, before proceeding with an 'auto run' portion of the application.

This is bugging me because I can't quite figure out how the timer works, or threading.sleep, what should I use? Been googling all day.

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