Async operations in MVC 4 with progress visualization

Question

I'm using DevExpress Controls in my MVC 4 application.

I now want to use their PopupControl to display the progress of an asynchronous operation (mostly FTP / Http calls, that could take quite some time).

For this question, any progressbar (not neccessarily within a PopupControl) will do just fine.

As I'm aware, in MVC 3 you've used AsyncControllers for that, but to my understanding they're deprecated with MVC 4 (.NET 4.5). Is there any tutorial out there on how to accomplish my task?

Answer 1

You can use standard techniques to get process of the async operations. Once results are available, display them with a corrsponding HTML element (PopupControl, ProgressBar, etc.).

Check the How to display progress information about server-side callback processing sample in the DevExpress forum.