ASP.NET Schedule deletion of temporary files

Question

Question: I have an ASP.NET application which creates temporary PDF files (for the user to download). Now, many users over many days can create many PDFs, which take much di

Answer 1

The Best way is to create a batch file which it be called by the windows task scheduler one at the interval that you want.

OR

you can create a windows service with the class above

public class CleanUpBot
{

public bool KeepAlive;

private Thread _cleanUpThread;

public void Run()
{

_cleanUpThread = new Thread(StartCleanUp);

}

private void StartCleanUp()
{

do

{

// HERE THE LOGIC FOR DELETE FILES

_cleanUpThread.Join(TIME_IN_MILLISECOND);

}while(KeepAlive)

}

}

Notice that you can also call this class at the pageLoad and it wont affect the process time because the treatment is in another thread. Just remove the do-while and the Thread.Join().