>Before I begin my trek down this path I want to make I've chosen it correctly. Your feed back is greatly appreciated.
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>On our web site (http://www.calchoice.com) members have an option to receive quotes - The process to calculate the quote is a resource intensive process which can sometimes take up to (if not more than) a minute to get a result.
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>In our design and architecture meeting we decide to entertain the possibility of using MSMQ for this.


Victor,

If your calc process is part of the same application you can just spin up a thread from the ASP.Net page to continue processing beyond the response/request. There are several articles on this on the net.

As was said, with MSMQ you have two processes. But, you don't even need the overhead of that, if you control both sides you could just create a table in SQL Server that contains the requests and have a service running that reads the table, process the quote and emails is.

Also, without MSMQ you could use the COM+ publish/subscribe to pass the message.

I think MSMQ is probably more than you need.

BOb