Simulate a Windows Service Using ASP.NET to Run Scheduled Jobs

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Simulate a Windows Service Using ASP.NET to Run Scheduled Jobs(beckelman.net)

submitted by beckelmw(2755) 3 years, 8 months ago

Back in 2005 Omar Al Zabir (Co-founder and CTO of PageFlakes) posted an article on the CodeProject web site Simulate a Windows Service using ASP.NET to run scheduled jobs that many of you have probably seen. If you liked the idea at the time but didn't do anything with it, you may want to take another look now. In the comments, dselkirk provided an alternative that really cleans things up that Erichero then improved upon slightly and converted to C#.

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posted by dotnetchris(157) 3 years, 8 months ago 0

I am honestly amazed I never would have considered something like this even remotely possible, I just have to wonder what the implications are of real usage of this pattern would be or if ASP.NET would truly handle it correctly and there would be no negative drawbacks to it.

posted by ajdotnet(2940) 3 years, 8 months ago 0

I can understand that somebody shys away from windows service development, but especially "to run scheduled jobs or cron jobs" this work has already been done by Microsoft: That service is called Scheduler!

As for using IIS for the job: a gross abuse in my opinion.

posted by beckelmw(2755) 3 years, 8 months ago 0

If your using shared hosting you don't have the option to use windows services though. The article isn't a solution for someone working with their own box.

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