How can long running thread work inside web application

Question

So I have inside MVC controller method the following code :

public ActionResult ProcessFile () 
{
    ThreadStart threadStart = new ThreadStart ( ()=>{

             


        

Answer 1

While the answer above is acceptable, there is some merit to having long running service like tasks hosted in your web app.

Rick Strahl has a blog post about it here: Use-IIS-Application-Initialization-for-keeping-ASPNET-Apps-alive