Asynchronous web request

[rolfejr]

I am pretty new to asp.net still - I am looking for a way to perform an
asynchronous web request to another page in asp.net with vb.
Basically, a user hits a page, the page gets the ip address of the user
(request.userHostAddress), then it sends that to another page to
process the IP address, perform a reverse DNS lookup, and send an email
(using the MailMessage object in the system.web.mail namespace) with
the host name in the email. I want to send it to another page because
I don't want the initial page to wait for the dns resolution to happen.

I don't even need results returned from the other page, I just need it
to process the ip and send the email. I've toyed around a bit with
request.beginGetResponse, but I've only seen examples with C# and I'm
not savvy enough to translate that to VB. If anyone has an example of
using the beginGetResponse or another method that would accomplish this
in VB, I would greatly appreciate it!

 

[Alvin Bruney [MVP]]

You can take those samples and run them thru instantC#. They have a great
product that does the translation for you and you can use the trail version
for these small snippets (less than 100 lines of code converted).