Web Service

Hi,

I'm new in aspx an new in web services. i made a few web services as test and works fine. I have the following situation :

I have a process that needs 30 min to run. I launch the process using asp.net in a web page. This process consist in charge a table in a SQL database from a TXT file, and make some actions.

My question is : can i use a web service as batch procesing to do that charge and let the browser free so the usr can do other task?

Thk's

:thumb:not sure but one suggestion, a poor one, would be to use frames in the browser.
you could do threading but do not think ASP.NET has that, unless im mistaken :)
Do you mean you need an Asynchronous Web Service? Does the web service need to return a result to the user?

Web Service Question

First you must forgive me because I am new to web services! My question/sit
uation is this. I have a messenger program (Windows Form based) that uses a
web service. Is there any way to check if that web service is online at an
y given time. I have read
where programs that use web services will "hang" if the service goes down.
Is there any way to make sure a web service is up before executing function
calls against it? Please post examples. I love this .NET stuff! C# is ver
y even for a former ja
va guy.
Thank you in advance,
DeanOn Mon, 5 Jul 2004 14:32:01 -0700, Dean Bortell
<DeanBortell@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>First you must forgive me because I am new to web services! My question/situation
is this. I have a messenger program (Windows Form based) that uses a web service.
Is there any way to check if that web service is online at any given time. I have r
ead
where programs that use web services will "hang" if the service goes down.
Is there any way to make sure a web service is up before executing function
calls against it? Please post examples. I love this .NET stuff! C# is ver
y even for a former j
ava guy.
>
A web service is nothing more than a web page with a well publicized
way of sending and receiving data. Other than just sending something
and seeing what comes back, I dont know of anything else.
Of course, it should be something you can track as well. If you want
to have a client side timeout, you could do so on your side.

Web Service Question

First you must forgive me because I am new to web services! My question/situation is this. I have a messenger program (Windows Form based) that uses a web service. Is there any way to check if that web service is online at any given time. I have read where programs that use web services will "hang" if the service goes down. Is there any way to make sure a web service is up before executing function calls against it? Please post examples. I love this .NET stuff! C# is very cool even for a former java guy.

Thank you in advance,

DeanOn Mon, 5 Jul 2004 14:32:01 -0700, Dean Bortell
<DeanBortell@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>First you must forgive me because I am new to web services! My question/situation is this. I have a messenger program (Windows Form based) that uses a web service. Is there any way to check if that web service is online at any given time. I have read where programs that use web services will "hang" if the service goes down. Is there any way to make sure a web service is up before executing function calls against it? Please post examples. I love this .NET stuff! C# is very cool even for a former java guy.

A web service is nothing more than a web page with a well publicized
way of sending and receiving data. Other than just sending something
and seeing what comes back, I dont know of anything else.

Of course, it should be something you can track as well. If you want
to have a client side timeout, you could do so on your side.