Valid Uses for Threading in ASP.Net

[Nick]

What are some valid uses where you could see that Threading would
effectively be used in ASP.Net? Some generic examples would really help
out.

Nick

 

[Scott Allen]

One example:

The CommunityStarterKit starts a timer in the Application_Start event
to periodically refresh local content from other remote sites via RSS
and web service calls.

You can take a look at the code by downloading the CSK from
http://asp.net.

 

[Jan Tielens]

Design and Implementation Guidelines for Web Clients
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnpag/html/diforwc-ch06.asp
Summary: This chapter describes how to increase performance and
responsiveness of the code in the presentation layer by using multithreading
and asynchronous programming.

In the section:
There are many situations where using additional threads to execute tasks
allows you to provide your users with better performance and higher
responsiveness in your application, including:
(for more look in the article)