how to stop the socket.connection

the socket.connection() really disturbs me thesedays. The program will stuck at socket.connection() forever if the remote port cannot be accessed.

So is there a way to solve that, say give it a 5 secs timeout?

Is there a way to do that despite the thread.abort()?

And  since my socket is a tcp/ip stream socket, and there is a shake hands procedure when the connection is being setup. normally it will try the syn/ack procedure for 21 secs before timeout but somehow it takes much more than that in netduino. 

That's my another confusion.

thanks for any comment

i am not sure about 4.3, but in 4.2 its blocking - means nothing happens till a connection is etablished.

you may want to put it in a thread so your programm keeps running, same for receiving data

Ya, I'm using 4.2. Now i'm looking for a better solution rather than multi- thread. I've been searching for a week but cannot find one..

i am not sure about 4.3, but in 4.2 its blocking - means nothing happens till a connection is etablished.

 

you may want to put it in a thread so your programm keeps running, same for receiving data

netmf doesent support async, so threading _IS_ the best solution.

on windows async would be the best (well, even that is some kind of threading ...)