What's the accepted way to write a C# TSR?

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Published on 2010-06-07T05:48:54Z Indexed on 2010/06/07 5:52 UTC
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I'm using C# to write a WCF router which I want to stay running without using the Console.ReadKey "hack". I was wondering if there's an accepted way to do this within C# that's more elegant than

while (true)
    Thread.Sleep(100);

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