Question

I have a windows form application that connects to a USB port.

In the method, there would be a while(!connected) to attempt to connect to the port endlessly.

How do I create a TimeSpan(?) variable to limit the connection to around maybe 10 seconds before it stops trying to connect and display a messagebox saying

“Connection failed. Please try again.”

Thanks!

Answer 1

Why not just record the start time as a DateTime?

var connectionStartTime = DateTime.Now

You can then periodically check the connection duration:

var duration = DateTime.Now - connectionStartTime;

You can then simply test the following

if (duration.TotalSeconds > 10.0) { do something }