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Art

I am working on a console app and I can not find a way to "cancel" a Read or
ReadLine. The scenario is, an employee logs in and the application presents
him/her with a menu of choices they can make and an instruction "Enter a
number 1 - 10 and press [Enter]". The employee walks away from the device
while still logged in. After a period of time I want to log the employee out
and re-prompt for a login. But I can't cancel the read. When the next
employee tries to log in the read is expecting "1 through 10" data.

I have created a reader as its own object and tried to destroy it when the
timer fires but it appears the Read() takes precedence.

Thanks in advance.
Art
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Kevin Yu [MSFT] (VIP)

Hi Arthur,

First of all, I would like to confirm my understanding of your issue. From
your description, I understand that you need to cancel reading from console
when time outs. If there is any misunderstanding, please feel free to let
me know.

As far as I know, this is not possible. Because Console.Read method
executes synchronously. When Read is called, the program waits for console
to return.

Based on the document, this method will not return until the read operation
is terminated; for example, by the user pressing the enter key. If data is
available, the input stream contains what the user entered, suffixed with
the environment dependent newline character.

Kevin Yu
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Art

Thank you Kevin. I was afraid that was the answer I would get. I'll try to
find a work around.

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