Hello,
I've written a windows service and so far what it does is browse to a
shared directory on an extranet. Check to see if any files exist in
this folder, if any do, the service downloads, processes and then
uploads a response file back up to a different shared folder.
My Question:
I would like to be able to start this service at 4am every day(I know
the download files won't be there until then)...then I want the service
to check for the files every say 20 mins until say 6am and then stop
chcking for the files until 4am the next day.
Has anyone done something like this and if so how. I have been looking
around but can't seem to find any info on anything like this.
Thanks in Advance.
8  1521 
Hi,
Why don't use a scheduled job instead?
Anyway, the answer shoudl be yes, I have a similar deployment, I do not use
itmers, I use FileSystemWatch er instead and it work fine, I create and
initialize the watcher in the onload and the process keep waiting until the
event is received.
The above solution is something you should consider, it's safer, in any
case do not hardcode the times, it could change later on and you would have
to redeploy your solution
cheers,
--
Ignacio Machin,
ignacio.machin AT dot.state.fl.us
Florida Department Of Transportation
<Pa*********@gm ail.com> wrote in message
news:11******** **************@ g49g2000cwa.goo glegroups.com.. . Hello,
I've written a windows service and so far what it does is browse to a
shared directory on an extranet. Check to see if any files exist in
this folder, if any do, the service downloads, processes and then
uploads a response file back up to a different shared folder.
My Question:
I would like to be able to start this service at 4am every day(I know
the download files won't be there until then)...then I want the service
to check for the files every say 20 mins until say 6am and then stop
chcking for the files until 4am the next day.
Has anyone done something like this and if so how. I have been looking
around but can't seem to find any info on anything like this.
Thanks in Advance.
Hi,
Why don't use a scheduled job instead?
Anyway, the answer shoudl be yes, I have a similar deployment, I do not use
itmers, I use FileSystemWatch er instead and it work fine, I create and
initialize the watcher in the onload and the process keep waiting until the
event is received.
The above solution is something you should consider, it's safer, in any
case do not hardcode the times, it could change later on and you would have
to redeploy your solution
cheers,
--
Ignacio Machin,
ignacio.machin AT dot.state.fl.us
Florida Department Of Transportation
<Pa*********@gm ail.com> wrote in message
news:11******** **************@ g49g2000cwa.goo glegroups.com.. . Hello,
I've written a windows service and so far what it does is browse to a
shared directory on an extranet. Check to see if any files exist in
this folder, if any do, the service downloads, processes and then
uploads a response file back up to a different shared folder.
My Question:
I would like to be able to start this service at 4am every day(I know
the download files won't be there until then)...then I want the service
to check for the files every say 20 mins until say 6am and then stop
chcking for the files until 4am the next day.
Has anyone done something like this and if so how. I have been looking
around but can't seem to find any info on anything like this.
Thanks in Advance.
The windows task sheduler has been disabled and I'm not allowed to use
it.
I can't use the FileSystemWatch er as the folders exist on an extranet
and I can't set up any webfolders on my server.
Sorry I forgot to mention that in the previous post
regards
Paul
The windows task sheduler has been disabled and I'm not allowed to use
it.
I can't use the FileSystemWatch er as the folders exist on an extranet
and I can't set up any webfolders on my server.
Sorry I forgot to mention that in the previous post
regards
Paul
On 31 Aug 2005 06:28:06 -0700, Pa*********@gma il.com wrote: I would like to be able to start this service at 4am every day(I know
the download files won't be there until then)...then I want the service
to check for the files every say 20 mins until say 6am and then stop
chcking for the files until 4am the next day.
Set your Windows service to start automatically, this way it will be always
running. Then use a System.Threadin g.Timer for you sheduled jobs. One of
its overloaded constructors takes 2 TimeSpan as parameters. The first one
is the time before the first callback invoke (set it to the time remaining
before 4am) and the second one is the time between 2 callback invokes (set
it to 20 minutes). When the callback method is invoked, check the time: if
it's 6am or later, Dispose your timer to stop it and recreate one for the
next day; if it's before 6am, do whatever you have to do.
Be carefull not to use using a System.Timers.T imer as it seems to be buggy
when used whithin a Windows Service (see http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;842793)
On 31 Aug 2005 06:28:06 -0700, Pa*********@gma il.com wrote: I would like to be able to start this service at 4am every day(I know
the download files won't be there until then)...then I want the service
to check for the files every say 20 mins until say 6am and then stop
chcking for the files until 4am the next day.
Set your Windows service to start automatically, this way it will be always
running. Then use a System.Threadin g.Timer for you sheduled jobs. One of
its overloaded constructors takes 2 TimeSpan as parameters. The first one
is the time before the first callback invoke (set it to the time remaining
before 4am) and the second one is the time between 2 callback invokes (set
it to 20 minutes). When the callback method is invoked, check the time: if
it's 6am or later, Dispose your timer to stop it and recreate one for the
next day; if it's before 6am, do whatever you have to do.
Be carefull not to use using a System.Timers.T imer as it seems to be buggy
when used whithin a Windows Service (see http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;842793)
Thanks Mehdi....
You've given me a great starting point....I'
I'll give it a bash and see how I progress!
Thanks Mehdi....
You've given me a great starting point....I'
I'll give it a bash and see how I progress!
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