Hi, I'm having a webmethod that takes a long time to return a response to the client, I want to place a progress bar for indicating the progress of the response, or if it is possible to show the remaining time to the client, does any body have an idea?, thanks for you help!!!!!!

Your webmethod is taking time to respond due to some heavy processing thats happening in the method or is it due to the bendwidth constraints. If it is former, your can create a wrapper method that would first calculate the time taken and return that time to you app after calling the actual method asyncronously within the service. You can use this returned time to setup the progress bar in your app.

If it is due to bendwidth constraints then there's hardly anything you can say with certainity about the time taken. So a progress bar that would just keep rolling (like the one you see at XP startup) is a good option to give the users something to look at while nothing else is happening.

Right now not getting any other ideas. Do update the forum if you get any.

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Ankur Verma