how to make application to exit after 5 sec else if any key pressed return back

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2014-10-21

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_{Tuesday, October 21, 2014 3:46 AM}

To make the program more nice i thought to add a timer in which it will ask from to "press any key to continue within 5 sec" if user enter any key then program returns else it exit

so i wrote this simple code for testing but its not working..so please help me to complete the task

using System;
using System.Threading;

namespace Timer
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{

for( ; ; )
{
Console.WriteLine("Hello World.. :)");
for (int i = 5; i >= 0;i-- )
{
Thread.Sleep(1000);
Console.Write("\rPress any key to continue within {0} seconds..",i);
if (i == 0)
System.Environment.Exit(1);
else if(i!=0)
continue;
}

}

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_{Tuesday, October 21, 2014 5:07 AM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

I shouldn't really write the code for you, but I'm a sucker for being called 'Sir'.

The link that I gave you before was for System.Threading.Timer, but I now think that System.Timers.Timer is better for this purpose because it's easier to reliably stop. Put System.Timers.Timer into Google to find out more.

Here's the code.

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Timers;

namespace Timer
{

   class Program
   {
      static void Main(string[] args)
      {
         Timer timer = new Timer(5000);
         timer.Elapsed += TimerTick;
         timer.Start();

         Console.WriteLine("Press a key to continue.");
         Console.ReadKey();
         timer.Stop();
         Console.WriteLine("Stopped");
         Console.Read();
      }

      static void TimerTick(Object obj, ElapsedEventArgs e)
      {
         Console.WriteLine("Exiting");
         Environment.Exit(0);
      }

   }
}

_{Tuesday, October 21, 2014 4:02 AM | 1 vote}

Greetings Palash.

Generally, if you think that you have found a use for Thread.Sleep, it's a good idea to think again.

In this case, Thread.Sleep is definitely not the right tool for the job. You need to use a Timer.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.threading.timer%28v=vs.110%29.aspx

Set the Timer's interval to 5 seconds (5000 milliseconds). Then do a Console.Read. If the Read executes (the user has pressed a key), then stop the timer. If the Timer ticks (so the code goes into the tick event handler), then exit the program.

_{Tuesday, October 21, 2014 4:29 AM}

thank u sir for the reply and telling me about timer class..but i can't understand it..please tell or edit the code in example sir..thanks :)

_{Tuesday, October 21, 2014 5:32 AM}

task completed..thank u sir..thanks a lot :)

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