I am looking to implement a long-running task in an ASP.NET 1.1 application.
While I am familiar with a couple of async operations outside of Web apps, I
have not yet implemented for a Web app.
The only piece I don't yet understand is how to notify the browser that a
long async operation has completed. Presumably the user has wandered off to
anyther page while the async operation was in progress. So what is a
reasonable way to get their attention - to notify them that (1) the async
operation has completed, and (2) show them results.
Thanks.
bruce barker - 17 Sep 2007 19:51 GMT
give them a page to lookup the status. you can also open a small windows
that polls for the status.
-- bruce (sqlwork.com)
> I am looking to implement a long-running task in an ASP.NET 1.1 application.
> While I am familiar with a couple of async operations outside of Web apps, I
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> Thanks.
Steve C. Orr [MCSD, MVP, CSM, ASP Insider] - 18 Sep 2007 05:24 GMT
The modern approach would be to call back to the server every so often via
AJAX to check the status.

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I hope this helps,
Steve C. Orr,
MCSD, MVP, CSM, ASPInsider
http://SteveOrr.net
>I am looking to implement a long-running task in an ASP.NET 1.1
>application. While I am familiar with a couple of async operations outside
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> Thanks.