How to abort a long running method?

Question

I have a long running method and I want to add timeout into it. Is it feasible to do that? Something like:

AbortWaitSeconds(20)
{
    this.LongRunningMethod();
}         


        

Answer 1

Since you have no control over that code I believe the correct approach would be to run that code using WaitHandles and the ThreadPool:

WaitHandle waitHandle = new AutoResetEvent(false);
ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(new WaitCallback(), waitHandle);
WaitHandle.WaitAll(new[]{ waitHandle }, );

Here you can find more info on how WaitHandle works.