Questions tagged [pageasynctask]

Does a PageAsyncTask fire off its own thread when used in a .aspx page?

I have a PageAsyncTask that takes about 2 mins to run. My page directive has Async="true", my config has the timeout as 180 (3 mins to give extra time), but when I call Page.ExecuteRegisteredAsyncTasks() it doesn't come back right away and is…

I am learning about asynchronous operations in ASP .NET. I found an article here MSDN. The code works, but I want to be able to update the UI during the long process. It only shows the result after the process has finished. I am using the same code…