Implementing RegEx Timeout in .NET 4

Question

Platform: Silverlight 4, .NET 4

With the .NET 4.5 Developer preview the RegEx class has been enhanced to allow setting of a Timeout value which would prevent the Reg

Answer 1

It is not that simple - but it can be done using two threads with the first doing the regex, the second killing the first thread if itruns too long. This is problematic in itself, though.