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Message: [QUOTE="Ralph, post: 1992523"] Okay I have a website where the user is going to hit a button to kick off a process that is going to take a long amount of time. Is there anyway without using AJAX, or possibly a windows control on a page that connects to a webservice to show the user the progress of this operation. It seems almost a given that I must use either ajax or some kind of control to do this. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. So far I have come up with two non Ajax/winforms controls solutions. 1) when user clicks button call both the server and the client events. in the client event call another aspx that actually runs the page via a popup. Can tell user they must have popups enabled. Not writing this app for the world. In my server code simply call another page that uses javascript timeout, to call its self every 10 to 30 seconds to read values put in the session by the process and display status to user. 2) would be launching the process in a thread. I have always shied away from threads in a web app. Use them in winforms, windows services, just was never shure what the behaviour of a thread would be in a web app. Does anyone have any experience using threads in a web app. Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance Ralph [/QUOTE]