I'm using a NetworkStream & TcpClient to asynchronously receive data using BeginRead. I need to apply a time-out to this operation, such that after a specified amount of time the read will be aborted.
As far as I'm able to tell, this isn't supported on NetworkStream or TcpClient - there is a ReceiveTimeout property, but this appears to only apply to the synchronous equivalent - 'Read'.
Even the underlying Socket class doesn't appear to support timeouts in its BeginReceive method.
I've searched on this issue and the only suggested resolution I've seen is to set up another background thread to cancel the operation if it doesn't complete within the timeout period. This seems like a horrible hack. Surely there is a better way?