HttpWebRequest and I/O completion ports

Question

I\'m working on an application that requires for one type of message to go hit a database, and the other type of message to go and hit some external xml api.

I have

Answer 1

Maybe your EndRead methods should only write the result to a thread safe queue that you then read from a small number of worker threads that are under your control. And/Or use the fact that HttpWebRequest will signal a waitable object when it is done and write your own logic to wait on all the outstanding requests from a single (or small number of) threads.