Long running task in WebAPI

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Great news, there is a new solution in .NET 4.5.2 called the QueueBackgroundWorkItem API. It’s really simple to use:

HostingEnvironment.QueueBackgroundWorkItem(ct => DoSomething(a, b, c));

Here’s an article that describes it in detail.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2014/06/04/queuebackgroundworkitem-to-reliably-schedule-and-run-background-processes-in-asp-net/

And here’s anohter article that mentions a few other approaches not mentioned in this thread.
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HowToRunBackgroundTasksInASPNET.aspx

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