Question

I have a web service app, I have 1 web service call that could take anything from 1 hour to 14 hours, depending on the data that needs to be processed and the time of the month.

Is there any way to create a job in IIS that could be capable of running this extended process. I also need job management and reporting to be able to see if jobs are running, so that new jobs aren’t created on top of others.

I will be working with IIS6 primarily. And would like to use C# code.

Right now I am using a web service call, but I don’t like the idea of having web services run for such a long time, and due to the nature of the web service, I can’t split the functionality any more.

IIS jobs would be awesome if they are available. Any ideas?

Answer 1

If I were you, I would make a command line app that is kicked off by the web service. Running a commandline app is pretty straight forward, basically

 Process p = new Process();

 p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
 p.StartInfo.FileName = "appname.exe";
 p.Start();

There are a limited amount of worker processes per machine, they aren’t really meant for long running jobs.