Keep the user on a page that take long time to process.

[svatasoiu]

Hi,
I must build a page that will enable users to check the status of some accounts online. The current status can be retrieved in minimum 15-20 sec. I need some Ideeas to make the page showing something during the wait time. All the processing is done by a stored procedure. I would like to do an asyncronous call to the stored procedure (if it is possible). How can I keep the user on the page, to do not go back and hit again.

thank you,

svatasoiu

[DevGrp]

You can use threads. Spin up a second thread to do the processing, then when its done redirect the user to other page.

[svatasoiu]

Hi,

thank you for your answer.
Do you know any place where I can see some examples.
Until now I did not worked with treads.

thank you,

svatasoiu

[hellswraith]

Do a search on www.google.com for VB.Net multithreading, or C# multithreading. You will get the info you need.

[DevGrp]

protected void btnProcess_Click(Object o, EventArgs e)
{
    // Create the thread object, passing in the DoLongProcessing method
    // using a ThreadStart delegate.
    Thread processingThread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(this.DoLongProcessing));

    //Start the thread
    processingThread.Start();
}


//Function to do processing
void DoLongProcessing()
{
    //Do processing here...
    
    //After processing done
    //redirect user to accounts page.

    Response.Redirect("Accounts.aspx");
} 

Hope that helped.