.NET webservice - acknowledge quickly, but continue processing in background
I'm building a .NET web service that will be consumed by a vendor's application, and I'm not sure how to accomplish the following: The vendor will call my webserivce with some information, but wants an acknowledgement returned quickly, just stating that I received their info. They don't care what I do with it, and don't want acknowledgement that I've finished processing. The info that I was passed needs to do something behind the scenes and act on the information in a time-sensitive manner - i.e., take some actions within a few minutes. I'll be contacting a number of other web services, as