Question

I’m trying to write a ASP.NET C# webservice that when running connects to an OPC Server (ignore the OPC part for now), retrieves a lot of data and then writes/inserts it into a SQL Database at a set interval.

My webapplication will then allow users to connect to the Database and see the live data that the webservice is continiously writing.

I’m completely new to webservices and I may have “missed the point” with them, but basically I need the service to run in the background and populate the database, so that all the different users can view the data live.

Any ideas on this? I’m completely lost.

Answer 1

I dont think you need webservice to insert data in background you can write a windows service to fetch data and insert it in the database.

Webservices are not used for such scenarios. They are totally different things otherwise windows service can be used to do what you want intend to do,