Hi,
I have a Global.asax file in which a function calls a my_method at given time interval. In this method I want to open a web page, how can I do this?

My code is like this:

void Aplication_Start(object sender,EventArgs e)
{
  ....
  my_method();
}

public static void my_method()
{
  //Here I want to write code for calling web page.
}

Pls tell if any idea.
Thanks

Where will this page be opened? Do you want every client that starts browsing your site to go to some start page?

Application start happens only once when the application starts. I.e. when the first user hits your application since the application or IIS has been re/started. You can use the Session_Start method to catch each user when they first hit your application. Of course, this then depends on users allowing cookies otherwise every single page hit will be seen by the server as a new session.

Within the methods you can use Response.Redirect to go to the desired page. Again, though, if your user doesn't support cookies then they will go into an infinite loop because every page hit will be a new session which will redirect them forever.

What are you looking to achieve with this? Perhaps there is a better way.

-Peter

Thanks for reply,
Actually I want to show a popup window to the logged in user at a specified interval of time. In Aplication_Start there is a counter loop which checkes for the time. As the scheduled time is reached, it calls my_method() which then should popup a window.

I tried writing in my_method:

HttpContext Context=(HttpContext)Sender;
Context.Response.Redirect and Context.Server.Transfer
work fine in Aplication_Start but not in my_method.

Is there any other way for this?
Thanks

I'm getting the impression that you don't understand the statelessness of a web application.

Application_Start ONLY runs ONCE when the first client hits the site after the application has been unloaded (server reboot, IIS restart, etc).

Session_Start runs on the first hit for a new client.

Those methods are not user specific. This article might help you get a better understanding of Global.asax:
http://aspalliance.com/articleViewer.aspx?aId=440&pId=

From your posts it sounds like you want to affect the user's experience at some point in time after they have entered the site. This would typically require some kind of session value storage (asp session, a cookie) to track the user's time.

If you want to have a window pop up at the designated time you need to use javascript so it happens on the client end. You can't trigger a client event from the server after the client has received a page.

You should probably write some javascript that gets written to the all your site pages. You can use the client side "setTimeout" method to set an event that will happen after the predetermined wait time. The trick will be that you'll need to save the site entry time (session or cookie) and recalculate the wait time on each page hit. That way as the user moves around your pages they'll always have the popup primed to fire at the right time based on the time calculation.

-Peter