How to run a Background Job ?

[vivekian]

Hi,

Need to run a background job which will run everyday and check if any
of the members in the web application have their membership expiration
date approaching and send them a remainder accordingly. How can this
thread / method be scheduled to run background at sometime during the
day.

Thanks in advance
vivekian .

 

[Bryan Phillips]

You can run a background job by using the ThreadPool class.

Bryan Phillips
MCSD, MCDBA, MCSE
Blog: http://bphillips76.spaces.live.com

 

[Michael D. Ober]

Write your application and then use the Task Schedular in Windows to execute
it every day at the desired time. Given this app, I would choose early
morning hours so the reminder is in their inbox when they arrive at work.

Mike Ober.

 

[Eliyahu Goldin]

Just to clarify that in this case you would write either windows or console
application. You can also use your database job scheduling facilities.

 

[fallenidol]

you are probably best writing a windows service application. these are
specifically designed to run "in the background" without any user
interaction

 

[Hans Kesting]

you are probably best writing a windows service application. these are

specifically designed to run "in the background" without any user interaction

Depends. If that process should run just once a day, a console
application that is started by "Scheduled Tasks" doesn't take up
resources the rest of the day.
If it should run (almost) continously, then you are right.

Hans Kesting

 

[Edwin Knoppert]

We do the same.
Task scheduler calling a simple app which uses the URLdownloadToFile() win32
api on the web app.
Which invokes a specific batch.
I append the result, which is plain text, to my logfile.
(It calls a generic handler/ashx)

Maybe you'll have luck with window's Wait.exe or similar.
There was an issue the task scheduler could not execute my web app, i tried
explorer but failed, therefore my simple win32 app.

 

[Guest]

Vivekian,
You may wanna check this link:
http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/ASPNETService.asp

Parind.