The library is not responding, what should I do?

Question

WPF

There is a third party library that works with the device. Returns 0 if everything is ok and other values ​​when everything is bad.
Sometimes the library does not return anything, i.e. application hangs.
In which direction is it better to look in order to make it asynchronous and properly timeout "cancel" the request to the library.
WPF, C#, .NET 4.0

Answer 1

Task to help you.

Answer 2

Look towards https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd321969(...

Answer 3

Use a Task that will be canceled via a CancellationToken if the timeout is exceeded.