WebSevice progress counter

[Jeppe Jespersen]

Hi folks,

I'm developing a webservice with a function that returns a potentially large
dataset.

I would like my client app to "know" how far along the call to the
webservice has gotten, and to notify the user that 100, 200, 300 etc records
have been retrieved.

I _know_ this is very unwebservicelike, but i really to want to avoid having
to call a "getNext100records" webmethod.

Any ideas, anyone?

Jeppe Jespersen
Denmark

[Kurt Farrar]

Not sure how you would do this with a web service, but AJAX is a hot topic at
the moment. I'm not sure how to use it syntax-wise, but as far as I know it's
capable of streaming XML to the page without the need to postback... assuming
it's a web application that you're working on. This could have the
implications of allowing the application work out how much of the stream has
been returned.

Maybe something worth looking into in order to acheive what you're trying to
do?

Just an idea.

--
Kurt Farrar
..NET Developer & Computer Enthusiast

"Jeppe Jespersen" wrote:

Hi folks,

I'm developing a webservice with a function that returns a potentially large
dataset.

I would like my client app to "know" how far along the call to the
webservice has gotten, and to notify the user that 100, 200, 300 etc records
have been retrieved.

I _know_ this is very unwebservicelike, but i really to want to avoid having
to call a "getNext100records" webmethod.

Any ideas, anyone?

Jeppe Jespersen
Denmark