Click here to Skip to main content
15,909,030 members
Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
0.00/5 (No votes)
See more:
How Can i use Timer Control to Execute a program on every monday in c#
Posted

Basically, the problem with the just the timer is: you usually cannot guarantee that the timer setting is remembered for days, 24 hours per days, because you cannot guarantee that some application is executed all the time. But to hold a timer, you need some application running all the time. The adequate form of such application would be Windows Service. But you don't need to write your own Windows Service.

The Service you need already exists, called Windows Task Scheduler, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task_Scheduler[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa383614.aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384006%28v=VS.85%29.aspx[^].

See the last link above for use of the Windows Task Scheduler. You can use its API in your program using Task Scheduler Managed Wrapper, see http://taskscheduler.codeplex.com/[^].

But if can be even simpler.
You can use Windows Task Scheduler using Windows utilities AT.EXE or SchTasks.EXE, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_(Windows)[^],
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490866.aspx[^],
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schtasks[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb736357%28v=vs.85%29.aspx[^].

And you don't need to write your own Windows Service.

The Service you need already exists, called Windows Task Scheduler, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task_Scheduler[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa383614.aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384006%28v=VS.85%29.aspx[^].

See the last link above for use of the Windows Task Scheduler. You can use its API in your program using Task Scheduler Managed Wrapper, see http://taskscheduler.codeplex.com/[^].

But if can be even simpler.
You can use Windows Task Scheduler using Windows utilities AT.EXE or SchTasks.EXE, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_(Windows)[^],
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490866.aspx[^],
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schtasks[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb736357%28v=vs.85%29.aspx[^].

—SA
 
Share this answer
 
v2
Comments
Prasad_Kulkarni 15-Mar-12 9:35am    
The best sir, +5
Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 15-Mar-12 9:54am    
Thank you very much, Pashad.
--SA
 
Share this answer
 

This content, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)



CodeProject, 20 Bay Street, 11th Floor Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5J 2N8 +1 (416) 849-8900