Creating Scheduled Tasks
This works for me https://www.nuget.org/packages/ASquare.WindowsTaskScheduler/
It is nicely designed Fluent API.
//This will create Daily trigger to run every 10 minutes for a duration of 18 hours
SchedulerResponse response = WindowTaskScheduler
.Configure()
.CreateTask("TaskName", "C:\\Test.bat")
.RunDaily()
.RunEveryXMinutes(10)
.RunDurationFor(new TimeSpan(18, 0, 0))
.SetStartDate(new DateTime(2015, 8, 8))
.SetStartTime(new TimeSpan(8, 0, 0))
.Execute();
You can use Task Scheduler Managed Wrapper:
using System;
using Microsoft.Win32.TaskScheduler;
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
// Get the service on the local machine
using (TaskService ts = new TaskService())
{
// Create a new task definition and assign properties
TaskDefinition td = ts.NewTask();
td.RegistrationInfo.Description = "Does something";
// Create a trigger that will fire the task at this time every other day
td.Triggers.Add(new DailyTrigger { DaysInterval = 2 });
// Create an action that will launch Notepad whenever the trigger fires
td.Actions.Add(new ExecAction("notepad.exe", "c:\\test.log", null));
// Register the task in the root folder
ts.RootFolder.RegisterTaskDefinition(@"Test", td);
// Remove the task we just created
ts.RootFolder.DeleteTask("Test");
}
}
}
Alternatively you can use native API or go for Quartz.NET. See this for details.