+1  A: 

I can't speak for ASMX, but WCF definitely does (and like you I'd be surprised if ASMX doesn't). Can you get the call stacks to ensure that they really are blocked on network calls (and not some other user code)?

Brian  2009-02-18 05:31:58

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