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

Easiest way would be to have the Web Service update a field on a database with the progress of the call, and then create a Web Service that queries that field and returns the value.