[dba-VB] Is it possible to develop active ASP.NET Web Services?

...I don't think you can do this as a pure web service ...but you can invoke 
a "with events" protocol from an outside timer/event based call to invoke 
asynchronous Web Service method calls to implement callback events from a 
Web Service to its clients ...hope that makes sense.

William

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From: "Shamil Salakhetdinov" <shamil at smsconsulting.spb.ru>
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 1:22 PM
To: "'Access-D - VB'" <dba-vb at databaseadvisors.com>
Subject: [dba-VB] Is it possible to develop active ASP.NET Web Services?

> Hi All,
>
> ASP.NET Web Services are known to be passive IOW they are activated when
> called from outside, they do some work, and quit until another web request
> comes...
>
> ...I wonder is it possible to develop active web service, which will be
> activating itself once in a while (e.g. by using a kind of schedule
> controlled by timer + some programmatic logic)...
>
> ...that active service could be something like endlessly
> running/sleeping/running... between resets web service method IOW a web
> service method with timeout set to infinitum...
>
> ...because ASP.NET web services application is by definition 
> multi-threaded
> having one thread like the questioned/requested above shouldn't be an 
> issue
> for the other IMO...
>
> ...this thread could be started by outside call or even (I guess) by web
> service itself calling its own method with infinitum timeout on start-up
> *via loopback web service call not directly* or something like that...
>
> ...that questioned/requested solution should be pure ASP.NET web service 
> one
> as it's planned to be used on ASP.Net hosting without access to the host
> operating system to run scheduled Windows Service etc...
>
> ...it could happen that questioned/requested Web Service solution is
> built-in ASP.NET feature: I must say I didn't investigate the docs/I 
> didn't
> try to make a POC solution - I expect somebody here might have done
> something like that already - all I need is an answer: yes, it can be 
> done,
> RTFM => {{URL}}} ...
>
> Thank you.
>
> --
> Shamil
>
> P.S. Sorry, I didn't do in advance investigation - I just didn't want to 
> get
> negative answer by myself - and if positive answer exists I'd be glad to
> share it with you, and you'll be ready for such a "tricky"/unusual (?)
> solution using Web Services in advance...
>
>
>
>
>
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