Asynchronously wait for Task to complete with timeout

Question

I want to wait for a Task to complete with some special rules: If it hasn\'t completed after X milliseconds, I want to display a message to the user. And

Answer 1

Definitely don't do this, but it is an option if ... I can't think of a valid reason.

((CancellationTokenSource)cancellationToken.GetType().GetField("m_source",
    System.Reflection.BindingFlags.NonPublic |
    System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Instance
).GetValue(cancellationToken)).Cancel();