Scheduled Mail in asp.net

Question

Hai Guys, My application deals scheduled mail concept (i.e) every morning 6.00 am my users gets a remainder mail about their activities for the day... I dont know how t

Answer 1

Okay this is interesting, and what I did fits silky's definite of 'cheating', but no it was pretty cool for me.

What I did was spawn a new thread from ASP.Net code (it was possible on that host), and that thread did the scheduled job.

I checked whether the thread was alive (which is pretty easy) on every visit to the website (not so reliable I know, but it worked cause that website has plenty of visitor).

If at all you do this

• Treat this as a stop-gap while you arrange to get a dedicated host or VPS.
• Rest assured that the hosting company will kill your thread and withdraw permissions when they discover you're doing this.