How do you start a command and move on immediately (POST Back) when using a WCF service

Question

Here is my question

I have a WCF service that I implemented using a singleton pattern, therefore only one instance of it will effectively ever run at any given time.

Now I have an aspx page that has a button called 'build' When I press 'build', the WCF services runs a method that takes about 15 minutes. The problem is when I make the call to the WCF service, I would like it to just start the method and not wait for it to complete, so that the user can navigate away, close the browser, etc and the method will run until it is complete.

Is this doable with a WCF service or did I go down the wrong avenue?

Answer 1

You can create a thread in your service.

Answer 2

How about the client using the Begin/End asychronous versions of the service method?