Help needed on implementing timer functionality in web application

28 Dec 2005 5:09 AM

AVL

Hi,
I'm developing an online fun game called tambola...
The requirement is as follows
Each logged user will have a ticket generated for him..
The system should display the numbers from 1 to 99 after every 10 secs....

Presently, I've used a timer control to display the numbers after every 10
secs...
The problem with the timer control is that, it's causing a postback after
every 10 secs,,, which is a hit on the server..
I want to avoid this hit on the server.. Is there any other to achieve this
functionality in .net without much load on the server

regs
avl

28 Dec 2005 2:32 PM

Kevin Spencer

You have not described the requirement as to why this "timer" submits the
form every ten seconds, and since you wrote it, I cannot guess why it does
this, nor therefore how it might accomplish the same requirement without
posting back to the server.

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
You can lead a fish to a bicycle,
but it takes a very long time,
and the bicycle has to *want* to change.

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"AVL" <A**@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F9207BAF-6096-4706-B0B3-F027D4035598@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> I'm developing an online fun game called tambola...
> The requirement is as follows
> Each logged user will have a ticket generated for him..
> The system should display the numbers from 1 to 99 after every 10 secs....
>
> Presently, I've used a timer control to display the numbers after every 10
> secs...
> The problem with the timer control is that, it's causing a postback after
> every 10 secs,,, which is a hit on the server..
> I want to avoid this hit on the server.. Is there any other to achieve
> this
> functionality in .net without much load on the server
>
> regs
> avl

29 Dec 2005 4:46 AM

AVL

Hi,
Actually, Tambola is a game in which each player will get a ticket and the
co-ordinator of the game will pick up numbers from 1 to 99 randomly..
If the picked up number happnes to be amongst the numbers being given on the
tciket, then the player marks that numbers in his tciket as completed. The
game ends when any one of the players will have his tciket completely
marked....

We are trying to simulate this game...

The players are the users of the application and system is the co-ordinator
is of the game...The system should pick up each number randomly after every
10 secs........

To do so, we have used a timer which is hitting the performance of the
application..
So, we are trying for another alternative
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"Kevin Spencer" wrote:

> You have not described the requirement as to why this "timer" submits the
> form every ten seconds, and since you wrote it, I cannot guess why it does
> this, nor therefore how it might accomplish the same requirement without
> posting back to the server.
>
> --
> HTH,
>
> Kevin Spencer
> Microsoft MVP
> ..Net Developer
> You can lead a fish to a bicycle,
> but it takes a very long time,
> and the bicycle has to *want* to change.
>
> "AVL" <A**@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F9207BAF-6096-4706-B0B3-F027D4035598@microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> > I'm developing an online fun game called tambola...
> > The requirement is as follows
> > Each logged user will have a ticket generated for him..
> > The system should display the numbers from 1 to 99 after every 10 secs....
> >
> > Presently, I've used a timer control to display the numbers after every 10
> > secs...
> > The problem with the timer control is that, it's causing a postback after
> > every 10 secs,,, which is a hit on the server..
> > I want to avoid this hit on the server.. Is there any other to achieve
> > this
> > functionality in .net without much load on the server
> >
> > regs
> > avl
>
>
>