Comments on: Scheduled Tasks in ASP.NET! http://dotnetchris.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/scheduled-tasks-in-aspnet/ C# ASP.Net Development Weblog Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:41:20 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: dotnetchris http://dotnetchris.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/scheduled-tasks-in-aspnet/#comment-80 dotnetchris Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:49:29 +0000 http://dotnetchris.wordpress.com/?p=69#comment-80 I agree Bill I doubt I'd attempt this on a mission critical service but it has left me wondering if this is a very viable solution to setup nightly jobs to allow IIS to handle the threading of the jobs. Basically what I'm thinking this could be amazing for is to setup your jobs to be invoked by an asynchronous web service call and have the scheduled task fire off a bunch of requests to the web service broken down to like a list of IDs from the database to run and have a WCF handle all of the work allowing you to setup a dynamically multithreaded batch job with no need to worry about the code over head of maintaining thread safe code. I agree Bill I doubt I’d attempt this on a mission critical service but it has left me wondering if this is a very viable solution to setup nightly jobs to allow IIS to handle the threading of the jobs.

Basically what I’m thinking this could be amazing for is to setup your jobs to be invoked by an asynchronous web service call and have the scheduled task fire off a bunch of requests to the web service broken down to like a list of IDs from the database to run and have a WCF handle all of the work allowing you to setup a dynamically multithreaded batch job with no need to worry about the code over head of maintaining thread safe code.

]]> By: Bill Beckelman http://dotnetchris.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/scheduled-tasks-in-aspnet/#comment-79 Bill Beckelman Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:39:08 +0000 http://dotnetchris.wordpress.com/?p=69#comment-79 Chris, Thanks for taking a look at my post. I agree, I never thought it was possible until I ran across the article. I'm not sure how robust it is and if I would trust it for something mission critical, but if you need mission critical your probably not on a shared server anyway and can use a windows service. I just want to re-iterate as well that I didn't write the posted code and don't take credit for it or the idea. I just posted what I found in the comments to give it some more exposure since I am sure tons of people are looking for the solution it provides. Please let me know what you develop using the idea going forward. Best Regards, Bill Beckelman Chris,

Thanks for taking a look at my post. I agree, I never thought it was possible until I ran across the article. I’m not sure how robust it is and if I would trust it for something mission critical, but if you need mission critical your probably not on a shared server anyway and can use a windows service. I just want to re-iterate as well that I didn’t write the posted code and don’t take credit for it or the idea. I just posted what I found in the comments to give it some more exposure since I am sure tons of people are looking for the solution it provides. Please let me know what you develop using the idea going forward.

Best Regards,
Bill Beckelman

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