Is there any way to dynamically set the windows service scheduling time??

e.g initially I have created Windows Services in C# that needs to be run every mid-night.
now master admin of the web application can change the scheduler time .i.e he/she want to run the scheduler after every 1 hr or every Saturday.
Any pointer or example will be helpful to me !!
Thanks in Advance.



Cheers :)

vinod

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Cheers :)

vinod

Control Panel -> Scheduled Tasks

Create a little program that calls the Web Service and use Scheduled Tasks to run it.

Look, you should know better - have you tried searching google for this e.g. "scheduled tasks c#".

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

Have you created an actual windows service or are you using the task scheduler to run a process?

If you have created an actual service, then the service must be performing its own scheduling. Thus you need some hook into it to manipulate settings within it. This can be done with .NET remoting.

-Peter
peterlanoie.blog

Hi All !!
I have created windows service.
Peter I am able to see outside the window thourgh your answer, if possible would you give me some more inputs/pointer to proceed.

Sincere apology to others for more explanation!!
Well i am able to schedule a task .

Problem Area: once i have scheduled a task , I want to give one asp.net page that allows to modify the schedule task time.
e.g. Initially if i scheduled a task that run on midnight(12:00).
Now I want to give User Interface to a specific user(through a web page) where that user can modify it so that service should run at 8:00 o'clock rather than 12:00.

Thanks again .


Cheers :)

vinod

Now I'm more confused.

You say you created a windows service. But then you go on to describe dealing with the windows scheduler.

If you have a windows service, it's running all the time. You don't need to use the windows scheduler to run the service (at least you shouldn't if it behaves like most services). Usually, services that do scheduled operations have their own scheduling and time keeping logic built in. Whether this is a time interval trigger that looks at some data store for information (such as a database table for jobs to execute) or a purely internal time trigger for a process.

-Peter
peterlanoie.blog

If I understood correctly he just want to make some web page which controls service's internal scheduling. What I would do is that...

1. Make the service read scheduling values from some config file (app.config for instance)
2. Create custom command handler in service that re-reads scheduling values when called
3. Create a web page which changes scheduling values and calls that custom command

More info here http://www.codeproject.com/KB/system...wsService.aspx (how to create service and handle custom commands) and here http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...ontroller.aspx (how to control service and send custom commands).