ASP.NET MVC Repeating Task

Question

I need to run a task repeatedly on an ASP.NET MVC site; it needs to run every time interval (Interval doesn\'t matter).

I achieved this by setting a backgro

Answer 1

Stackoverflow itself uses (or at least used to use) a cunning way of doing this. See here: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/07/easy-background-tasks-in-aspnet/

In brief, you do this:

1. At startup, add an item to the HttpRuntime.Cache with a fixed expiration.

2. When cache item expires, do your work, such as WebRequest or what have you.

3. Re-add the item to the cache with a fixed expiration.