How to limit the execution time of a function in c sharp?

Question

I\'ve got a problem. I\'m writing a benchmark and I have a function than is either done in 2 seconds or after ~5 minutes(depending on the input data). And I would like to st

Answer 1

Since C# and .net framework are not real-time environments, you can't guarantee even the 3 seconds count. Even if you were to get close to that, you would still have to call the

if(timeSpan > TimeSpan.FromSeconds(3) then goto endindentifier; before every other call in the method.

All this is just wrong so no, there is just no reliable way to do it from what I know.

Although you can try this solution

https://web.archive.org/web/20140222210133/http://kossovsky.net/index.php/2009/07/csharp-how-to-limit-method-execution-time

but I just wouldn't do such things in .net application.