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Is there any to have the scheduled plugin service cancel a process if it goes past a given period of time whilst running so it doesn't hold up any other schedules or does the scheduler handle handle multiple task simultaneously so a plugin can't "stall" things?

SBarnes wrote:Is there any to have the scheduled plugin service cancel a process if it goes past a given period of time whilst running so it doesn't hold up any other schedules or does the scheduler handle handle multiple task simultaneously so a plugin can't "stall" things?

No - and I don't think it would be possible to hack in by spawning off a task in the Execute method and handling it that way without introducing some interesting problems.

We'd be best to add a property you could set from within the plugin itself to add a timeout value - perhaps a TimeSpan - and when not null we could invoke an optional method of the plugin to indicate timeout expired and the plugin could abort in a safe fashion - I don't think we'd forcibly kill a scheduled plugin task upon timeout ourselves.

Ok thanks,

I think a separate version of the service is likely to be the safest option.