BackgroundWorker thread in ASP.NET

Question

Is it possible to use BackGroundWorker thread in ASP.NET 2.0 for the following scenario, so that the user at the browser\'s end does not have to wait for long time?

Answer 1

What you need to use for this scenario is Asynchronous Pages, a feature that was added in ASP.NET 2.0

Asynchronous pages offer a neat solution to the problems caused by I/O-bound requests. Page processing begins on a thread-pool thread, but that thread is returned to the thread pool once an asynchronous I/O operation begins in response to a signal from ASP.NET. When the operation completes, ASP.NET grabs another thread from the thread pool and finishes processing the request. Scalability increases because thread-pool threads are used more efficiently. Threads that would otherwise be stuck waiting for I/O to complete can now be used to service other requests. The direct beneficiaries are requests that don't perform lengthy I/O operations and can therefore get in and out of the pipeline quickly. Long waits to get into the pipeline have a disproportionately negative impact on the performance of such requests.

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