creating a scheduled task. - Visual Basic .NET

Neil

Hi,
I am having problems in trying to create a scheduled task from within
in application that carries out a health check on a client. I am using
VS 2005.

When the program runs it flashes a command prompt but does nothing.

Dim task As New System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo("schtasks /create
/tn ""Test2"" /tr C:\WINDOWS\system32\calc.exe /sc daily /st 15:14:00
/ru ""System""")
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(task)

Any help will be gratefully received
Neil.

Jul 6 '06 #1

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Jared Parsons [MSFT]

Hello Neil,

Hi,
I am having problems in trying to create a scheduled task from within
in application that carries out a health check on a client. I am using
VS 2005.
When the program runs it flashes a command prompt but does nothing.

Dim task As New System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo("schtasks /create
/tn ""Test2"" /tr C:\WINDOWS\system32\calc.exe /sc daily /st 15:14:00
/ru ""System""")
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(task)
Any help will be gratefully received Neil.

Is the application running as a non-administrator? If so this won't work
because you have to be an admin to run schtasks.

Otherwise what is the return code of schtasks?

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Jared Parsons [MSFT]
ja******@online.microsoft.com
All opinions are my own. All content is provided "AS IS" with no warranties,
and confers no rights.

Jul 6 '06 #2

Neil

Jared wrote:

Hello Neil,

Hi,
I am having problems in trying to create a scheduled task from within
in application that carries out a health check on a client. I am using
VS 2005.
When the program runs it flashes a command prompt but does nothing.

Dim task As New System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo("schtasks /create
/tn ""Test2"" /tr C:\WINDOWS\system32\calc.exe /sc daily /st 15:14:00
/ru ""System""")
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(task)
Any help will be gratefully received Neil.

Is the application running as a non-administrator? If so this won't work
because you have to be an admin to run schtasks.

Otherwise what is the return code of schtasks?

--
Jared Parsons [MSFT]
ja******@online.microsoft.com
All opinions are my own. All content is provided "AS IS" with no warranties,
and confers no rights.

Hi Jared,
I had the application running as a non-administrator but schtasks
still does not return an error code.
thank you for help
Neil

Jul 7 '06 #3

Eric Moreau

See an article I wrote in August 2004 from http://emoreau.s2i.com/. A
wrapper for the scheduled task is available for download.

--
HTH

Éric Moreau, MCSD, Visual Developer - Visual Basic MVP
Conseiller Principal / Senior Consultant
S2i web inc. (www.s2i.com)
http://emoreau.s2i.com/

"Neil" <ne*****@gmail.comwrote in message
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Hi,
I am having problems in trying to create a scheduled task from within
in application that carries out a health check on a client. I am using
VS 2005.

When the program runs it flashes a command prompt but does nothing.

Dim task As New System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo("schtasks /create
/tn ""Test2"" /tr C:\WINDOWS\system32\calc.exe /sc daily /st 15:14:00
/ru ""System""")
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(task)

Any help will be gratefully received
Neil.

Jul 9 '06 #4

Neil

Hi Éric,
this is just what I was looking for, thank you very much.
Neil
Eric Moreau wrote:

See an article I wrote in August 2004 from http://emoreau.s2i.com/. A
wrapper for the scheduled task is available for download.

--
HTH

Éric Moreau, MCSD, Visual Developer - Visual Basic MVP
Conseiller Principal / Senior Consultant
S2i web inc. (www.s2i.com)
http://emoreau.s2i.com/

"Neil" <ne*****@gmail.comwrote in message
news:11**********************@b68g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
Hi,
I am having problems in trying to create a scheduled task from within
in application that carries out a health check on a client. I am using
VS 2005.

When the program runs it flashes a command prompt but does nothing.

Dim task As New System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo("schtasks /create
/tn ""Test2"" /tr C:\WINDOWS\system32\calc.exe /sc daily /st 15:14:00
/ru ""System""")
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(task)

Any help will be gratefully received
Neil.

Jul 10 '06 #5

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