How to abort socket's BeginReceive()?

Question

Naturally, BeginReceive() will never end if there\'s no data. MSDN suggests that calling Close() would abort BeginReceive().

Answer 1

I was struggling with this as well but as far as I can tell using a simple boolean flag before calling .BeginReceive() will work as well (so there'll be no need for exception handling). Since I already had start/stop handling, this fix was a matter of one if statement (scroll down to the bottom of the OnReceive() method).

if (_running)
{
    _mainSocket.BeginReceive(_data, 0, _data.Length, SocketFlags.None, OnReceive, null);
}                

Should I have overlooked something with this approach, let me know!