Practice · 4 of 5
Time-box a Flaky Operation
CHALLENGE
Difficulty: intermediate+25 XP
Wrap an arbitrary task with a timeout: return its result if it finishes in time, otherwise throw TimeoutException. Use Task.WhenAny + Task.Delay (or Task.WaitAsync — .NET 8+).
``csharp
static Task<string> WithTimeout(Task<string> work, int timeoutMs);
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