Visual Studio 2015 Publish WebJobs Issue

Question

Using the right-click, Publish as Azure WebJob... option in VisualStudio 2015, the job is published however the runMode seems to be ignored.

In my file, I have the f

Answer 1

There is now a better way of scheduling WebJobs using CRON expressions, which is simpler and avoids all the Scheduler issues mentioned here.

To use it, do the following:

• Your Azure Web App must be running in Standard mode, and have 'Always On' enabled.
• When creating your WebJob in Visual Studio, choose 'Run on Demand' instead of 'Run on a Schedule'.
• Create a settings.job file at the root of your WebJob. Make sure to set Copy to Output Directory='Copy if newer'. This file should contain something like this (which makes it run on the top of each hour):

{ "schedule": "0 0 * * * *" }

For more information, about this technique, see the following links:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-sites-create-web-jobs/#CreateScheduledCRON

http://blog.amitapple.com/post/2015/06/scheduling-azure-webjobs/