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

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

--
William Stacey, MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

"Andy Fish" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> 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
>
>