creating a scheduled task.

[Neil]

Hi,
I am having problems in trying to create a scheduled task from within
in application that carries out a health check on a client. I am using
VS 2005.

When the program runs it flashes a command prompt but does nothing.

Dim task As New System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo("schtasks /create
/tn ""Test2"" /tr C:\WINDOWS\system32\calc.exe /sc daily /st 15:14:00
/ru ""System""")
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(task)

Any help will be gratefully received
Neil.

 

[Jared Parsons [MSFT]]

Hello Neil,

Hi,
I am having problems in trying to create a scheduled task from within
in application that carries out a health check on a client. I am using
VS 2005.
When the program runs it flashes a command prompt but does nothing.

Dim task As New System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo("schtasks /create
/tn ""Test2"" /tr C:\WINDOWS\system32\calc.exe /sc daily /st 15:14:00
/ru ""System""")
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(task)
Any help will be gratefully received Neil.

Is the application running as a non-administrator? If so this won't work
because you have to be an admin to run schtasks.

Otherwise what is the return code of schtasks?

 

[Neil]

Hello Neil,

Hi,
I am having problems in trying to create a scheduled task from within
in application that carries out a health check on a client. I am using
VS 2005.
When the program runs it flashes a command prompt but does nothing.

Dim task As New System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo("schtasks /create
/tn ""Test2"" /tr C:\WINDOWS\system32\calc.exe /sc daily /st 15:14:00
/ru ""System""")
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(task)
Any help will be gratefully received Neil.

Is the application running as a non-administrator? If so this won't work
because you have to be an admin to run schtasks.

Otherwise what is the return code of schtasks?

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Hi Jared,
I had the application running as a non-administrator but schtasks
still does not return an error code.
thank you for help
Neil

 

[Eric Moreau]

See an article I wrote in August 2004 from http://emoreau.s2i.com/. A
wrapper for the scheduled task is available for download.

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HTH

Éric Moreau, MCSD, Visual Developer - Visual Basic MVP
Conseiller Principal / Senior Consultant
S2i web inc. (www.s2i.com)
http://emoreau.s2i.com/

 

[Neil]

Hi Éric,
this is just what I was looking for, thank you very much.
Neil