Cancel C# 4.5 TcpClient ReadAsync by timeout

Question

What would the proper way to cancel TcpClient ReadAsync operation by timeout and catch this timeout event in .NET 4.5?

TcpClient.ReadTimeout seems to be applied to

Answer 1

so I know that was from a long time but google still drive me here and I saw there is none marked as answer

for me, I solve like that I make an extension to add a method ReadAsync that takes extra timeout

public static async Task ReadAsync(this NetworkStream stream, byte[] buffer, int offset, int count, int TimeOut)
{
    var ReciveCount = 0;
    var receiveTask = Task.Run(async () => { ReciveCount = await stream.ReadAsync(buffer, offset, count); });
    var isReceived = await Task.WhenAny(receiveTask, Task.Delay(TimeOut)) == receiveTask;
    if (!isReceived) return -1;
    return ReciveCount;
}

so if it returned -1 that mean the read timed out