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WaitHandle::WaitTimeout Field

 

Indicates that a WaitAny operation timed out before any of the wait handles were signaled. This field is constant.

Namespace:   System.Threading
Assembly:  mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

public:
literal int WaitTimeout

Field Value

Type: System::Int32

This field is one of the possible return values of WaitAny.

The following code example demonstrates how to use the thread pool to simultaneously search for a file on multiple disks. For space considerations, only the root directory of each disk is searched.

using namespace System;
using namespace System::IO;
using namespace System::Threading;
ref class Search
{
private:

   // Maintain state information to pass to FindCallback.
   ref class State
   {
   public:
      AutoResetEvent^ autoEvent;
      String^ fileName;
      State( AutoResetEvent^ autoEvent, String^ fileName )
         : autoEvent( autoEvent ), fileName( fileName )
      {}

   };


public:
   array<AutoResetEvent^>^autoEvents;
   array<String^>^diskLetters;

   // Search for stateInfo->fileName.
   void FindCallback( Object^ state )
   {
      State^ stateInfo = dynamic_cast<State^>(state);

      // Signal if the file is found.
      if ( File::Exists( stateInfo->fileName ) )
      {
         stateInfo->autoEvent->Set();
      }
   }

   Search()
   {

      // Retrieve an array of disk letters.
      diskLetters = Environment::GetLogicalDrives();
      autoEvents = gcnew array<AutoResetEvent^>(diskLetters->Length);
      for ( int i = 0; i < diskLetters->Length; i++ )
      {
         autoEvents[ i ] = gcnew AutoResetEvent( false );

      }
   }


   // Search for fileName in the root directory of all disks.
   void FindFile( String^ fileName )
   {
      for ( int i = 0; i < diskLetters->Length; i++ )
      {
         Console::WriteLine(  "Searching for {0} on {1}.", fileName, diskLetters[ i ] );
         ThreadPool::QueueUserWorkItem( gcnew WaitCallback( this, &Search::FindCallback ), gcnew State( autoEvents[ i ],String::Concat( diskLetters[ i ], fileName ) ) );

      }

      // Wait for the first instance of the file to be found.
      int index = WaitHandle::WaitAny( autoEvents, 3000, false );
      if ( index == WaitHandle::WaitTimeout )
      {
         Console::WriteLine( "\n{0} not found.", fileName );
      }
      else
      {
         Console::WriteLine( "\n{0} found on {1}.", fileName, diskLetters[ index ] );
      }
   }

};

int main()
{
   Search^ search = gcnew Search;
   search->FindFile( "SomeFile.dat" );
}

Universal Windows Platform
Available since 8
.NET Framework
Available since 1.1
Portable Class Library
Supported in: portable .NET platforms
Silverlight
Available since 2.0
Windows Phone Silverlight
Available since 7.0
Windows Phone
Available since 8.1
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