Odd problem with a oneway webservice

[Keith McDonald]

We need to invoke a webservice method that will call an sp that may run
up to 1 hour so we want to start the sp then let the client continue
working. I have read about the OneWay:=true but calling the webservice
it seems to still wait until the service is finished before returning
to the client. Any ideas? - Code below..


In the webservice we define this method:


<SoapDocumentMethod(OneWay:=True), _
WebMethod(EnableSession:=True, Description:="STX processing of
imported invoices.")> _
Public Sub StartProcessingInvoices()

--code to run the sp which works as needed

End Sub

In the codebehind aspx page:

'Final call to webservice to start processing inported data
Dim wsInvoices As New STXProcessInvoices
Dim resultMessage As String

wsInvoices.StartProcessingInvoices()

...continue processing and displaying the aspx results page
to the client

 

[Keith McDonald]

This looks to be solved. We had the webservice in the same project as
the aspx page. Not sure what the difference is but putting it in as a
web reference and calling it that way fixed the problem.

 

[m.posseth]

I guess the difference is the threading mechanism used , in your code you
could have acomplished the same if you used a background worker

regards

Michel Posseth [MCP]