I’ve read at various websites that Thread.Abort is not very good to use. In

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I’ve read at various websites that Thread.Abort is not very good to use. In

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I’ve read at various websites that Thread.Abort is not very good to use. In this case, how do you implement a timeout pattern? For instance, I’ve read that MS uses the pattern below (which I’ve wrapped in an extension method) throughout the framework. Personally, I think this is a pretty cool extension, but I’m worried about the Thread.Abort. Does anyone have a better way?

 public static bool CallandWait(this Action action, int timeout)     {         Thread subThread = null;         Action wrappedAction = () =>         {             subThread = Thread.CurrentThread;             action();         };          IAsyncResult result = wrappedAction.BeginInvoke(null, null);          if (((timeout != -1) && !result.IsCompleted) && (!result.AsyncWaitHandle.WaitOne(timeout, false) || !result.IsCompleted))         {             if (subThread != null)             {                 subThread.Abort();             }              return false;         }         else         {             wrappedAction.EndInvoke(result);             return true;         }     }