CancellationToken and CancellationTokenSource-How to use it?

Question

I have a UI button called Load. It spawns a thread, which in turn spawns a task. There is a wait on the task, and if it expires the task gets cancelled. The Load button is n

Answer 1

This will do it:

    private CancellationTokenSource _cancelTasks;

    // this starts your process
    private void DoStuff()
    {
        _cancelTasks = new CancellationTokenSource();

        var task = new Task(() => { /* your actions here */ }, _cancelTasks.Token);
        task.Start();

        if (!task.Wait(5000)) _cancelTasks.Cancel();
    }