Call web service on interval

Question

User-1126439996 posted

In my mobile web site on need to call a website every 2000 milliseconds and if I find data redirect the browser to a new page. Can someone suggest a way to accomplish this without a total page refresh?

Answer 1

User-1052551871 posted

yes u can do it if is webservice... also in windows mobile is suported threads so my gues is tu use threads... u can du it by setting slleap for 2000 milliseconds for that thread thets call your webservice...

Answer 2

User-1126439996 posted

Thanks for the reply. 

Not sure I was clear on the problem. I have a mobile asp.net website. I also have a webservice set up. From a page on the website I need to call a method on the webservice every 2000 milliseconds. I don't have any problem doing this with a timer in code behind page. The question is how to I redirect the clients browser to a new page if I find the correct data from the webservice method?

Answer 3

User-1052551871 posted

Check this i hope this will help..

http://dotnetjunkies.com/MobileQuickStart/(emtt5pjcb02x5xyke5u2qtfr)/Default.aspx?url=doc/TimerForm.aspx

http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials/aspnet/764b113c-2b3a-4b78-8a68-72d2c53b8470/make-your-aspnet-mobile.aspx

http://www.w3schools.com/dotnetmobile/default.asp

Answer 4

User-1126439996 posted

Thanks again. I think the TimerForm may be the way to go.

 

I have another question not really related but I am a newbie to ASP and Mobile so that makes for real fun. I am usually a C# application developer so this is another world altogether. When I detect some data at web service I need to be able to play a sound on the mobile device. Sort of an alert.

Answer 5

User-1126439996 posted

At first glance I thought this was what I needed. I can do the call this way but it is not very elogant. The TimerControl approach does a page refresh thereby causing the form to reload. I will calling this every two seconds. The Form has some buttons on it so if a user needs to click a button chances are the form will be reloading making it very non - user friendly. In addition, the page will be rendering every two seconds causing much more network traffic. I was hoping to find a partial page approach where all I would do is call the webservice every two seconds and not render the entire form.