Thread timeout

Hi,

I have a long running task that I want to run on a regular basis to do some db updates. I can't write a windows service because it is being hosted
elsewhere. I want to run this task within my web application - so here is
what I did:

In the global.asax I declared a delegate function and a timer. In the
application start event, I started the timer. I created a method to
respond to the timer event, which creates a new thread and runs the Long
Running Task method:

Private Delegate Function LongRunningTaskTask() As Integer
Private WithEvents ServiceTimer As New System.Timers.Timer(86400000)
Sub Application_Start(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
ServiceTimer.Start()
End Sub
Private Sub WakeUp(ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal e As ElapsedEventArgs) Handles ServiceTimer.Elapsed
Try
' Create new thread
Dim AsyncStatePrice As IAsyncResult
' Start the task on a runtime thread asynchronously
Dim AsyncInvokerPrice As New LongRunningTaskTask(AddressOf
LongRunningTaskUpdate)

AsyncStatePrice = AsyncInvokerPrice.BeginInvoke(Nothing,
Nothing)

Dim WaitHandles() As WaitHandle =
{AsyncStatePrice.AsyncWaitHandle}
WaitHandle.WaitAll(WaitHandles)

Catch ex As Exception
'Throw (ex)
End Try
End Sub
The method kicks off fine, but times-out before completion. I want this to continue running regardless if the person who invoked the application start event has their browser open or not. Is there a way to increase the
timeout value for the thread through code. I don't want to change the
session timeout for everyone, just this one process. Is there a better
solution?

Thanks

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Well, I tried the ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem approach, but it looks like it terminates the thread after about 30 seconds.
Private WithEvents ServiceTimer As New System.Timers.Timer(600000)

Sub Application_Start(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
ServiceTimer.Start()
End Sub
Private Sub PricePointsWakeUp(ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal e As ElapsedEventArgs) Handles ServiceTimer.Elapsed
Dim stateInfo As New TaskInfo("Price Points Update", 1)
If ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(New WaitCallback(AddressOf
LongRunningTask), stateInfo) Then

Thread.Sleep(1000)

End If
End Sub

Public Class TaskInfo
Public Boilerplate As String
Public Value As Integer

Public Sub New(ByVal text As String, ByVal number As Integer)
Boilerplate = text
Value = number
End Sub
End Class

Shared Sub LongRunningTask(ByVal stateInfo As Object)

End Sub

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