There have been multiple times I wished I had a method for this. Often when you are testing things using a plain console application you want to view some output but not have to wait forever (using something like Thread.Sleep) or every time needing to press the ‘Any’ key \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
Actually I’m a bit surprised .Net hasn’t got something like this built in yet but since it doesn’t I had to create one myself. I created a utility class with a single method to accomplish this. I thought about using an extension method but since the Console class is itself static extension methods does not work for it.<\/p>\n
public static class<\/span> ConsoleHelper
\n{<\/p>\npublic static ConsoleKeyInfo<\/span> ReadKeyWithTimeOut(int<\/span> timeOutMS)
\n{<\/p>\nDateTime<\/span> timeoutvalue = DateTime<\/span>.Now.AddMilliseconds(timeOutMS);<\/p>\n
while<\/span> (DateTime.Now < timeoutvalue)
\n{<\/p>\nif<\/span> (Console<\/span>.KeyAvailable)
\n{<\/p>\nConsoleKeyInfo<\/span> cki = Console<\/span>.ReadKey();
\nreturn<\/span> cki;<\/p>\n}
\nelse<\/span>
\n{<\/p>\nSystem.Threading.Thread<\/span>.Sleep(100);<\/p>\n
}<\/p>\n
}
\nreturn new ConsoleKeyInfo<\/span>(‘ ‘, ConsoleKey<\/span>.Spacebar, false<\/span>, false<\/span>, false<\/span>);<\/p>\n}<\/p>\n
}<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
What this gives you is a method that waits until the specified time-out expires or any (normal) key has been pressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There have been multiple times I wished I had a method for this. Often when you are testing things using a plain console application you want to view some output but not have to wait forever (using something like Thread.Sleep) …<\/p>\n