Is there something like cron jobs in IIS

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I'm developing an ASP.NET web application. There is some functionality I need to trigger every 10 minutes. So currently I'm considering a 'scheduled task' or to create a Windows service to call the URL.

But I remember once I did the same thing in a PHP web hosting space, using a cron job.

So is there anything like cron jobs in IIS?

Note: I'm not expecting to use 3rd-party online scheduler services.

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Apples and oranges. cron is a Unix service. IIS is a web server. Just as cron is not included in Apache or nginx, there is no sense in which IIS contains a scheduler. However, you can use schtasks.exe in a similar way you can use cron on Unix.

You might find more ideas in this question.

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Unix – How to list all cron jobs for all users

You would have to run this as root, but:

for user in $(cut -f1 -d: /etc/passwd); do crontab -u $user -l; done

will loop over each user name listing out their crontab. The crontabs are owned by the respective users so you won't be able to see another user's crontab w/o being them or root.

Edit if you want to know which user a crontab belongs to, use echo $user

for user in $(cut -f1 -d: /etc/passwd); do echo $user; crontab -u $user -l; done

C# – the equivalent to cron jobs in ASP.NET

Try Quartz.NET. It's a decent .NET scheduler which supports CRON expressions, CRON triggers and various other means and methods to schedule tasks to be performed at certain times / intervals.

It even includes a basic Quartz.NET server (Windows Application) that might fit your needs.

Edit:

If you can't run applications or windows services within your shared hosting then perhaps something like "Easy Background Tasks in ASP.NET" will do you? It simulates a Windows Service using HttpRuntime.Cache and removes the need for any external dependancies.

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C# – the equivalent to cron jobs in ASP.NET

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