helllloooo all,
i have a web service that implements a very long operations of database maintenance. so it takes about 3 - 10 minutes in average.

the problem is , i call this maintenance service from my windows application (vb.net 205) . it works fine but it raises a timeout exception after a while.

the exception raised told me about something called pump message that the web serivce should raise periodically to the client using the service method in order to advise him that the service is still procssing and prevent the time out.

something like application.doevents

i have searched for nearly 20 minutes without luck, so if can anybody save me the time and advise me what to write inside the blocks of the webservice. i will be thankful

RGDS all and thx for your time