Halting Program Execution with VB6

Say for example you want to perform batch updates, but only want to do 100 records every minute. If you’re using a DLL or ActiveX EXE to do the job, the easiest way to halt program execution is to use the Windows API Sleep method. Just add the following declaration to a module in your project, and specify the number of seconds times by 1000 (to get milliseconds) that you want your program to sleep for in between updates.

Note: This call stops ALL the threads in your application. If you only want to pause the processing of a single thread, use the Wait() API function.

    Declare Sub Sleep Lib "kernel32.dll" (ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long)