Long-running events in ASP.NET revisited

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And I agree as well. Here’s what I said recently, in response to Hanselman’s post about async work in ASP.NET:

How to run Background Tasks in ASP.NET

I read that shortly after he published it. But right now I don’t see much need for any of those tools since I’ve always just made bulk ops workers and/or Windows services, which have the advantage of being in their own processes in case you need to kill them or something. But I suppose that’s also a downside, because they don’t share memory with your web app. Anything you need to pass to them needs to first be stored in a database or some other persistent place.