Monitoring a synchronous method for timeout

Question

I\'m looking for an efficient way to throw a timeout exception if a synchronous method takes too long to execute. I\'ve seen some samples but nothing that quite does what I

Answer 1

If you have a Task called task, you can do this:

var delay = Task.Delay(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(3));
var timeoutTask = Task.WhenAny(task, delay);

If timeoutTask.Result ends up being task, then it didn't timeout. Otherwise, it's delay and it did timeout.

I don't know if this is going to behave identically to what you have implemented, but it's the built-in way to do this.