Best way to run scheduled tasks [closed]

Answer 1

Use Windows Scheduler to run a web page.

To prevent malicous user or search engine spiders to run it, when you setup the scheduled task, simply call the web page with a querystring, ie : mypage.aspx?from=scheduledtask

Then in the page load, simply use a condition : if (Request.Querystring["from"] == "scheduledtask") { //executetask }

This way no search engine spider or malicious user will be able to execute your scheduled task.