Asynch processing in ASP.NET

Tim Marsden

HI

Firstly, I am new to ASP.NET and struggling with the following concepts.

I have a win form which gathers information, eg date range , product code
etc. when I press a button, a request is sent to the server (using sockets)
after the request is complete, the server calls back the win form (which is
listening on the port) with the response, and the form reacts to the
response.

I wish to duplicate this using a Web page instead of a Win Form.
I can gather and validate the info OK.

After this I wish to put out a Waiting... Page, and wait for the response
from the server. When the response is received redirect to the appropriate
results page.

How do I code my waiting page to wait for the server response. ?
Also I don't want to tie up the Web server resource.? If I need to start
another thread, how do I do this. ?
What happens is the user navigates away for the Waiting.. page. ?

Any suggestion are extremely well received.

I am using VB.NET I have seen examples of asynchronous C# projects but I
don't understand them.

Regards
Tim

Nov 18 '05 #1

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John Saunders

"Tim Marsden" <TM@UK.COM> wrote in message
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HI

Firstly, I am new to ASP.NET and struggling with the following concepts.

I have a win form which gathers information, eg date range , product code
etc. when I press a button, a request is sent to the server (using sockets) after the request is complete, the server calls back the win form (which is listening on the port) with the response, and the form reacts to the
response.

I wish to duplicate this using a Web page instead of a Win Form.
I can gather and validate the info OK.

After this I wish to put out a Waiting... Page, and wait for the response
from the server. When the response is received redirect to the appropriate
results page.

How do I code my waiting page to wait for the server response. ?
Also I don't want to tie up the Web server resource.? If I need to start
another thread, how do I do this. ?
What happens is the user navigates away for the Waiting.. page. ?

Any suggestion are extremely well received.

I am using VB.NET I have seen examples of asynchronous C# projects but I
don't understand them.

Check out "Indicating Progress"
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...pplication.asp

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John Saunders
johnwsaundersii i at hotmail

Nov 18 '05 #2

Cowboy \(Gregory A. Beamer\) [MVP]

The normal method actually fudges the process. It goes like so:

1. Write out the "waiting" code message and flush the Response
2. When you get the answer, write out a Response.Redire ct (client side) to
move the user to another page. You can also do this same effect with a
"waiting layer" and a "results layer". You show the waiting layer first and
then hide it after you paint the underlying results layer. Depending on the
browsers you are hitting (ie, do you have to target Netscape and IE versions
3).

This gets you around the fact that you cannot, without writing a hook of
some sort, talk from the server to the client except through the stream.

For longer running processes, you will have to have something on the page
that you can communicate with, as the page will time out before you finish
the response.

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MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

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"Tim Marsden" <TM@UK.COM> wrote in message
news:OF******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl...

HI

Firstly, I am new to ASP.NET and struggling with the following concepts.

I have a win form which gathers information, eg date range , product code
etc. when I press a button, a request is sent to the server (using sockets) after the request is complete, the server calls back the win form (which is listening on the port) with the response, and the form reacts to the
response.

I wish to duplicate this using a Web page instead of a Win Form.
I can gather and validate the info OK.

After this I wish to put out a Waiting... Page, and wait for the response
from the server. When the response is received redirect to the appropriate
results page.

How do I code my waiting page to wait for the server response. ?
Also I don't want to tie up the Web server resource.? If I need to start
another thread, how do I do this. ?
What happens is the user navigates away for the Waiting.. page. ?

Any suggestion are extremely well received.

I am using VB.NET I have seen examples of asynchronous C# projects but I
don't understand them.

Regards
Tim

Nov 18 '05 #3

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