Set time out on XmlTextReader

[dj4uk]

I have the following code which takes a news feed from a remote website and loads it into a DataSet.

However I'm having problems when the feed times out - rather than throwing an error that is caught by the try catch block it just throws a time out error for the whole application.

XmlTextReader _xmlReader = new XmlTextReader(ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["NewsXmlFeedUrl"]);
DataSet _dsStories = new DataSet();
_dsStories.ReadXml(_xmlReader);

How can I extend this so I can specify a time out for the XmlTextReader?

Cheers

DJ

[mendhak]

Could you not do an HttpWebRequest instead where you can specify a timeout?

[dj4uk]

I expect so but I'm sure the steps needed to get the XML from the HttpWebRequest into the DataSet.

Any help appreciated.

[mendhak]

Internally, the XmlTextReader uses HttpWebRequest anyways. I checked MSDN, there's nothing that you can use to set a timeout. Poorly documented class.