How to ignore the passage of time while debugger has code paused?

Question

I have calculations I\'m performing which I need to timeout if it runs too long. I might set a timeout of 5 seconds, and do periodic polls throughout my code. Actual code

Answer 1

There is a not so nice workaround.

You have to use Stopwatch instead of calculating the difference between present time and start time.

Let's say you have the following piece of code:

Stopwatch watch = Stopwatch.StartNew();

DoSomething();
DoAnotherThing(); <-- You want to add a breakpoint here
DoFinalThings();

watch.Stop();

You can achieve what you want adding three lines of code before the line you want to breakpoint:

Stopwatch watch = Stopwatch.StartNew();

DoSomething();

watch.Stop();       // Stops measuring time
Debugger.Break();   // Programatically breaks the program at this point
watch.Start();      // Resumes measuring time

DoAnotherThing();
DoFinalThings();

watch.Stop();