[c#] Close a MessageBox after several seconds

The System.Windows.MessageBox.Show() method has an overload which takes an owner Window as the first parameter. If we create an invisible owner Window which we then close after a specified time, it's child message box would close as well.

Window owner = CreateAutoCloseWindow(dialogTimeout);
MessageBoxResult result = MessageBox.Show(owner, ...

So far so good. But how do we close a window if the UI thread is blocked by the message box and UI controls can't be accessed from a worker thread? The answer is - by sending a WM_CLOSE windows message to the owner window handle:

Window CreateAutoCloseWindow(TimeSpan timeout)
{
    Window window = new Window()
    {
        WindowStyle = WindowStyle.None,
        WindowState = System.Windows.WindowState.Maximized,
        Background =  System.Windows.Media.Brushes.Transparent, 
        AllowsTransparency = true,
        ShowInTaskbar = false,
        ShowActivated = true,
        Topmost = true
    };

    window.Show();

    IntPtr handle = new WindowInteropHelper(window).Handle;

    Task.Delay((int)timeout.TotalMilliseconds).ContinueWith(
        t => NativeMethods.SendMessage(handle, 0x10 /*WM_CLOSE*/, IntPtr.Zero, IntPtr.Zero));

    return window;
}

And here is the import for the SendMessage Windows API method:

static class NativeMethods
{
    [DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
    public static extern IntPtr SendMessage(IntPtr hWnd, UInt32 Msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam);
}