performing scheduled tasks in .net

[Andy Fish]

Hi,

I need to implement some kind of scheduler in my .net windows service that
can run tasks on a specified schedule. It needs to be more sophisticated
than just "every N seconds". Ideally it should support cron-style
specification of date/time intervals or something similar.
I have used quartz for java and it does exactly what I want (but in the java
world)

AFAIK the only "built in" feature is the windows 'at' command, but this
would require me to fire up a separate command line app every time which
then pokes the service to perform the work, so it's a bit clunky.

Is there anything I can use to do this kind of thing natively inside .net?

TIA

Andy

 

[William Stacey [MVP]]

No native .net scheduler AFAIK. You could wrap the os scheduler or create
one. Here are two examples of both methods:
Create one:
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/EventScheduler.asp

Create a managed wrapper for the OS Scheduler.
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/tsnewlib.asp