asp.net - Preforming scheduled tasks in C# .NET MVC Application

Question

I'm trying to implement a logic for my .NET MVC application where I would trigger scheduled tasks in my application on a following basis:

First scheduled task to run from 00 am to 1 am in the morning
Second scheduled task to run from 1:10 am to 08:00 am in the morning 
Third scheduled task to run from 8:15 am to 11:15 pm every 1 hour

This would repeat every day 365 days a year...

Which mechanism in .NET or external library could I use to implement this the easiest way with little code?

I was trying to implement it with Quartz.NET library but I didn't like it at all, I had two scheduled tasks running where one would never run at all for the scheduled time...

Answer 1

You don't want to be performing long running and recurring background tasks in your web application for multiple reasons. You may go through the following blog post which outlines them very well.

I would recommend you moving this logic into a separate Windows Service or even a Console Application whose runs could be scheduled with the Windows Task Scheduler at the desired intervals.

The benefit of this is that you will be off-loading your web application from doing long running tasks which will be consuming precious resources from your webserver. Of course both the webserver and the worker service could share a common centralized datastore or messaging layer in order to communicate if necessary.