Comments on: Web Reference URL Behavior http://ellisweb.net/2005/07/windows_service_calling_a_web_service/ Thoughts, Articles & Links on Programming & Technology by Yaakov Ellis Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:10:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Chris http://ellisweb.net/2005/07/windows_service_calling_a_web_service/comment-page-1/#comment-98016 Chris Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:34:05 +0000 #comment-98016 Usualy, you just spawn a worker thread from ASP.net to do that sort of work for you. That / those thread(s) will persist as long as ASP.net does, and can then be easily managed from within your ASP.net app. Using a windows service is one more thing to maintain, and one more thing to break. Community Server is a great example of code to look at that uses worker threads from an ASP.net instance. Usualy, you just spawn a worker thread from ASP.net to do that sort of work for you. That / those thread(s) will persist as long as ASP.net does, and can then be easily managed from within your ASP.net app.

Using a windows service is one more thing to maintain, and one more thing to break.

Community Server is a great example of code to look at that uses worker threads from an ASP.net instance.

]]> By: Yasir Atabani http://ellisweb.net/2005/07/windows_service_calling_a_web_service/comment-page-1/#comment-82180 Yasir Atabani Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:52:36 +0000 #comment-82180 "Obviously, in order for the Windows Service to function properly" this is not true, web service implementations vary , and this is a very useful property, that you can use to alter the web service URL. “Obviously, in order for the Windows Service to function properly”

this is not true, web service implementations vary , and this is a very useful property, that you can use to alter the web service URL.

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