This particular block of code is being used within a service where I spin up several “agents” upon startup. I suppose I could have done it the way you suggest, but this seemed a bit cleaner at the time.

Your comment did make me notice one thing, however. I was just spinning up a plain vanilla thread and kicking it off. That could get pretty heavy especially if I’m spinning up several hundred threads on startup. I modified it to take advantage of the thread pool which is optimized for this sort of thing.

Nice read. Love the “fluent” stuff.

Instead of using a full-blown thread and then putting it to sleep, you could just use a Timer instance and set the initial delay so that the timer will fire off at the desired time. It’s just another way of skinning the same feline.

- Wil