MVC 3 With Quartz.Net

You have a couple of options, depending on what you want to do and how you want to set it up. For example, you can install a Quartz.Net server as a standalone windows serviceor you can also embed it inside your asp.net application.

If you want to run it embedded, then you can start the server from say your global.asax, like this (from the source code examples, example #12):

NameValueCollection properties = new NameValueCollection();
properties["quartz.scheduler.instanceName"] = "RemoteServer";

// set thread pool info
properties["quartz.threadPool.type"] = "Quartz.Simpl.SimpleThreadPool, Quartz";
properties["quartz.threadPool.threadCount"] = "5";
properties["quartz.threadPool.threadPriority"] = "Normal";

ISchedulerFactory sf = new StdSchedulerFactory(properties);
IScheduler sched = sf.GetScheduler();
sched.Start();

If you run it as a service, you would connect remotely to it like this (from example #12):

NameValueCollection properties = new NameValueCollection();
properties["quartz.scheduler.instanceName"] = "RemoteClient";

// set thread pool info
properties["quartz.threadPool.type"] = "Quartz.Simpl.SimpleThreadPool, Quartz";
properties["quartz.threadPool.threadCount"] = "5";
properties["quartz.threadPool.threadPriority"] = "Normal";

// set remoting expoter
properties["quartz.scheduler.proxy"] = "true";
properties["quartz.scheduler.proxy.address"] = "tcp://localhost:555/QuartzScheduler";
// First we must get a reference to a scheduler
ISchedulerFactory sf = new StdSchedulerFactory(properties);
IScheduler sched = sf.GetScheduler();

Once you have a reference to the scheduler (be it via remoting or because you have an embedded instance) you can schedule jobs like this:

// define the job and ask it to run
JobDetail job = new JobDetail("remotelyAddedJob", "default", typeof(SimpleJob));
JobDataMap map = new JobDataMap();
map.Put("msg", "Your remotely added job has executed!");
job.JobDataMap = map;
CronTrigger trigger = new CronTrigger("remotelyAddedTrigger", "default", "remotelyAddedJob", "default", DateTime.UtcNow, null, "/5 * * ? * *");
// schedule the job
sched.ScheduleJob(job, trigger);

Here's a link to some posts I wrote for people getting started with Quartz.Net: http://jvilalta.blogspot.com/2009/03/getting-started-with-quartznet-part-1.html

You don't use a file input control. Server side controls are not used in ASP.NET MVC. Checkout the following blog post which illustrates how to achieve this in ASP.NET MVC.

So you would start by creating an HTML form which would contain a file input:

@using (Html.BeginForm("Index", "Home", FormMethod.Post, new { enctype = "multipart/form-data" }))
{
    <input type="file" name="file" />
    <input type="submit" value="OK" />
}

and then you would have a controller to handle the upload:

public class HomeController : Controller
{
    // This action renders the form
    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        return View();
    }

    // This action handles the form POST and the upload
    [HttpPost]
    public ActionResult Index(HttpPostedFileBase file)
    {
        // Verify that the user selected a file
        if (file != null && file.ContentLength > 0) 
        {
            // extract only the filename
            var fileName = Path.GetFileName(file.FileName);
            // store the file inside ~/App_Data/uploads folder
            var path = Path.Combine(Server.MapPath("~/App_Data/uploads"), fileName);
            file.SaveAs(path);
        }
        // redirect back to the index action to show the form once again
        return RedirectToAction("Index");        
    }
}