create task schedule desktop application

Question

Hello Guys.

i want to develop a application which update my database periodically.

at first users create simple a taks(like settle to a bank account). then the application should automatically run this tasks and update accounts.

one more thing: users use the web base application to create the tasks but a desktop application should run and manage all tasks.

I'm new in c# and i will appreciate if you can explain with sample application.

Thank you guys.

Answer 1

There is no difference between a web application and a desktop application.  

1) Web Application : Has a web interface and connects to a HTML Service/Server/File.

2) Desktop Application :  Doesn't have a web interface.

The backend processing of both the web application and desktop application are the same.  With either a web or desktop application you can create a scheduled task.  Any program can run as a schedule task as long as all the input and output are fully defined and doesn't require a user input.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7394806/creating-scheduled-tasks

 

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Answer 2

Thank you so much dear Joel.

i have another question about Trigger:

as i found out, after user creating a new task, a new trigger should add.

am i right?

now if i want to handle all of the tasks with my desktop application i should create a (task service) for each user or what?

do you have another sample which run a trigger on database?

i guess this could be helpful.

thanks again.

Answer 3

Normally schedule tasks are run with admin credentials.  The standard admin account may not have the same environmental variables settings so you may want to create a special user account with admin credentials to run schedules tasks.  Depending on the version of windows you are using that setup of the admin account will be different.

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