How to run a timer in an separate thread?

Question

I have a loop like below

for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
    // some long time processing
}

I want to create a timer, which would check if one processing runs more than 5 minutes. If one processing runs more than 5 minutes, it would stop current processing then start another processing.

Is it possible to make another thread to monitor the main loop?

My program is a console application.

Answer 1

Take a look at ManualResetEvent and specifically the WaitOne method.

Answer 2

you should use System.Timers.Timer

Answer 3

In addition to Jamie's asnwer you can use the System.Threading.Timer, which will execute in a background thread.

Answer 4

However, you are still not really able to abort the running code. The code iteself has to provide an ability to cancel itself which the timer could invoke after a certain time.

You could use a boolean "shouldCancel" for example which you are checking in every iteration of your loop (or even multiple times).

The "bad" way would be using Thread.Abort - however, this is not really good style.