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• 05-10-2009, 6:01 AM

  MikeKrolnik Joined on 05-10-2009, 9:57 AM London Posts 1

  Using IIS 6.0+ as an application server Reply Contact  In one of our projects, we use a .NET web application to serve data from MS SQL database to a remote desktop applications as well as host a group of threads which manage the application workflow. Each workflow thread runs a long running process which it manages external resources. In our case, reading emails from an Exchange server and communicating with a central server for informaiton updates. Has anyone used .NET with ISS to run long running threads processes? What type of behaviour have you seen?  Other options?

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• 05-10-2009, 10:49 PM

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  steve schofield Joined on 06-10-2002, 8:54 PM MI Posts 3,929

  Re: Using IIS 6.0+ as an application server Reply Contact IIS is nothing more than a web server.  HTTP is meant to be a stateless protocol.  Long running requests (say longer than 5 minutes) isn't really using the strengths of HTTP/HTTPS.  I'd suggest looking at a alternate approaching using Windows Services or WCF.  (Windows Communication Foundation) I'm more familar with Services than anything to achieve long running processes. Steve Schofield Windows Server MVP - IIS http://weblogs.asp.net/steveschofield http://www.IISLogs.com Log archival solution Install, Configure, Forget

• 05-11-2009, 9:42 AM

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  tomkmvp Joined on 03-20-2003, 6:27 AM Central NJ Posts 6,216	Re: Using IIS 6.0+ as an application server Reply Contact +1 to what Steve said.  What you are asking about is not suitable for aweb app. Tom Kaminski IIS MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ http://blogs.iis.net/tomkmvp/ http://www.linkedin.com/pub/8/690/408 http://www.bluesrepublic.org/