TcpListener.AcceptTcpClient OR TimeOut

Trapper Hell

It seems that I'm stuck on something small but I've been working on it for quite some time and I'm exhausted... I have a method that returns a bool whether a TcpConnection was successful or not... The method attempts TcpListener.AcceptTcpClient however I want it to return false if no client has been connected within a specified time (e.g. 2000 milliseconds)... How can I achieve this? I attempted the .BeginAcceptTcpClient and .EndAcceptTcpClient but these still block OR if I use the Thread.Sleep() I block the method from accepting any connecting client.. I need the result to be returned if a TcpClient is accepted or the operation 'timed-out' - whichever comes first. Please help!

Jimmanuel

something like this?

[pseudo C#]
private bool GetNext(out TcpClient client)
{
client = null;

while ((less than 2000 ms has elapsed) and (!TcpListener.Pending())
{
    Sleep a bit
}

if (TcpListener.Pending())
{
    client = TcpListener.AcceptTcpClient();
    return true;
} 

return false;

}

:badger: