Re-reading your original post, if you are really running as a service, the interaction becomes a bit more complex... You would probably need to use .Net Remoting.
I thought about having a dedicated thread where I would have lots of > sleep periods in an infinite loop. After each sleep period, I could > compare the current time with the time of the next event that must be > fired. The event would have to be fired in X seconds and I would enter > in a new sleep This would be a bad design (IMHO). If you needed to go with this type of implementation, you should use the Timer class, and could wake up periodically, you could probably even determine how long you wanted to wait between "ticks" of the timer and wake up more closely to what you need. If you are running as a console app, you could simply pass it the command line parameters that you would as if you are running it. The only gotcha is that you would by default run as a different user, so you may want/need to configure the app to run as a specific user. -----Original Message----- From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eddie Lascu Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 4:34 PM To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Triggering events at precise moments of the day They don't have COM Interfaces (my app is a plain C# win service). Could you elaborate on your second solution? Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Bergman Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 5:30 PM To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Triggering events at precise moments of the day You could use VBScript to interact with them if they have COM interfaces, or you can start an Executable with the scheduler itself. -----Original Message----- From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eddie Lascu Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 4:28 PM To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Triggering events at precise moments of the day How would that interact with all the structures and objects that are created in my app? -----Original Message----- From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of gregory young Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 5:25 PM To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Triggering events at precise moments of the day Well depending what you are doing I would prbably just use windows scheduler. On 9/27/06, Eddie Lascu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello experts, > > I need to call a method in my console app/win service at precise > moments of > the day. When I say precise I mean +/- a few seconds. The number of > events triggered and the time of the day when they should be triggered > is variable. > If only one method call must be performed, then it should always be > approximately at the same time of the day, say midnight. If two events > are to be fired, they should be say 12 hours apart, noon and midnight, > and so on. The configuration part I can handle. I need some ideas on > how to trigger > the events. > I thought about having a dedicated thread where I would have lots of > sleep periods in an infinite loop. After each sleep period, I could > compare the current time with the time of the next event that must be > fired. The event would have to be fired in X seconds and I would enter > in a new sleep period > for X/2 seconds. Eventually, the difference between the current time > and the > time of the next event would become smaller that an acceptable delta, > at which moment I would fire the event and would enter in a new sleep period. > This way the events would always be fired at approximately the same > times of > the day, and I wouldn't have to worry about the moment when the > application/win service was started. > I am not particularly proud of this solution as it seems kind of > empiric, but I just couldn't think of anything else. > Can you gals and guys come up with a more elegant and reliable approach? > > TIA, > Eddie > > =================================== > This list is hosted by DevelopMentor(r) http://www.develop.com > > View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com > -- If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. 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