How do you measure the progress of a web service call?

Question

I have an ASP.NET web service which does some heavy lifting, like say,some file operations, or generating Excel Sheets from a bunch of crystal reports. I don\'t want to be b

Answer 1

You can also use SoapExtensions to notify your client of the download/process progress. The server can then send events to the client. Nothing in the client has to be changed if you don't use it.

Allows for something like this in your client:

//...
private localhost.MyWebServiceService _myWebService = new localhost.MyWebServiceService ();
_myWebService.processDelegate += ProgressUpdate;
_myWebService.CallHeavyMethod();
//...

private void ProgressUpdate(object sender, ProgressEventArgs e)
{
  double progress = ((double)e.ProcessedSize / (double)e.TotalSize) * 100.00;
  //Show Progress...
}