How to add a Timeout to Console.ReadLine()?

Question

I have a console app in which I want to give the user x seconds to respond to the prompt. If no input is made after a certain period of time, program logic should

Answer 1

I may be reading too much into the question, but I am assuming the wait would be similar to the boot menu where it waits 15 seconds unless you press a key. You could either use (1) a blocking function or (2) you could use a thread, an event, and a timer. The event would act as a 'continue' and would block until either the timer expired or a key was pressed.

Pseudo-code for (1) would be:

// Get configurable wait time
TimeSpan waitTime = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(15.0);
int configWaitTimeSec;
if (int.TryParse(ConfigManager.AppSetting["DefaultWaitTime"], out configWaitTimeSec))
    waitTime = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(configWaitTimeSec);

bool keyPressed = false;
DateTime expireTime = DateTime.Now + waitTime;

// Timer and key processor
ConsoleKeyInfo cki;
// EDIT: adding a missing ! below
while (!keyPressed && (DateTime.Now < expireTime))
{
    if (Console.KeyAvailable)
    {
        cki = Console.ReadKey(true);
        // TODO: Process key
        keyPressed = true;
    }
    Thread.Sleep(10);
}