How do you create a separate process for the email method? (just a hit of key words that I can start Googling, thank you).
>Better way... the email should be handled by a separate process. If the send crashes, it could bring down the web site.
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>>One of the features of my ASP.NET application is where a user enters some information and on Submit a stored procedure is called, which adds record(s) to the database. Then a method is called which sends email(s) to a distribution list. Sometimes the Email method/routine takes quite a bit of time (up to a minute) and the user has to wait for the Acknowledgement of submit. Recently I read a couple of on-line articles on Task Parallel Library and on await and async. I am still not 100% sure I understand these concepts (but it never in the past stopped me from implementing things I don't understand :)). So I am thinking of converting the method that sends emails to the "await" and "async" type method so that the user will get to the acknowledgement page faster, while the emails are being sent on another thread.
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>>Does it make sense?
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