To reply the email I received this week about an old post of mine from 2005 that I cannot find, I did some digging. This is the class to create a thread for a process that takes a long time to run in ASP.NET without much ADO.
public class AsyncHelper
{
class TargetInfo
{
internal TargetInfo(Delegate d, object[] args)
{
Target = d;
Args = args;
}
internal readonly Delegate Target;
internal readonly object[] Args;
}
private static WaitCallback dynamicInvokeShim = new WaitCallback(DynamicInvokeShim);
public static void FireAndForget(Delegate d, params object[] args)
{
ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(dynamicInvokeShim, new TargetInfo(d, args));
}
static void DynamicInvokeShim(object o)
{
try
{
TargetInfo ti = (TargetInfo)o;
ti.Target.DynamicInvoke(ti.Args);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
// Only use Trace as is Thread safe
System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine(ex.ToString());
}
}
}
Hope this helps
Cheers
Al