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

5 years later, but problems the same… If you want to perform fire-and-forget operations from your application and forget about all difficulties related to background job processing in ASP.NET applications, you can use http://hangfire.io.

• It does not loose your jobs on recycling process, because it uses persistent storage to keep information about background jobs.
• It automatically retries your background jobs that were aborted or failed due to transient exception (SMTP Server connectivity errors).
• It allows you to easily debug background jobs through the integrated web interface.
• It is very easy to install/configure/use HangFire.

There is also tutorial Sending Mail in Background with ASP.NET MVC for using HangFire with Postal.