Resolving Autofac components in background Tasks in ASP.NET

Question

Using Autofac in ASP.NET along with the ContainerDisposalModule, how can i support fire and forget calls that have component dependencies that need to be resolved? The prob

Answer 1

You need to create a new lifetime scope that is independent of the request lifetime scope. The blog post below shows an example of how to do this using MVC but the same concept can be applied to WebForms.

http://aboutcode.net/2010/11/01/start-background-tasks-from-mvc-actions-using-autofac.html

If you need to ensure that the async work is definitely performed after the request is finished then this is not a good approach. In such cases I would recommend posting a message onto a queue during the request allowing a separate process to pick it up and perform the work.