Quartz.Net GUI Tour - Part 2

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  • Date : November 9, 2010
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This is the second part of the Quartz.Net GUI Tour. The first part of the tour covered connecting to schedulers and adding jobs. In this post, I’ll go over the remaining features.

Running Jobs

To run a job immediately, select the job from the left tree. The job details will be displayed on the right, and the run button will be enabled, as in the attached screenshot:
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Clicking on the button will cause the job to be scheduled to execute once, immediately.

Deleting Jobs

To delete a job, select it from the left tree. The delete button will then become enabled. Click the delete button on the right to delete the job and all of its associated triggers.
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Pausing and Resuming Triggers

Quartz.Net manager allows you to pause and resume triggers as well. To enable the pause / resume button, you must first select a trigger from the tree on the left. Once a trigger is selected, the pause button will be enabled. Click on the pause button to pause a trigger. If the trigger you selected is already paused, the button will say Resume instead of Pause. Click on the resume button to reactivate the selected trigger.
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Backup To File

The last feature we’ll discuss in the tour is the backup to file feature. This feature lets you backup all of your jobs and triggers to a text (xml) file. This file can be then be used by the xml plugin to load all the job information into, say, a new scheduler instance. To create a backup of your scheduler, right click on the entry for the scheduler in the tree. Select the backup option and enter a file name for your backup file.
This concludes the quick tour of the Quartz.Net manager features. I hope you have found it useful.

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Quartz.Net GUI Tour

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  • Date : November 8, 2010
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In this post I will do a quick walkthrough of the Quartz.Net GUI that we open sourced last week.

Installation

We do not have an installer right now, so your options are:
  1. 1. Download the source code and hit F5.
  2. 2. After having downloaded the source code and done a successful build, run the executable.
  3. 3. Download the binaries, extract them into a folder and run the executable.

Connecting to a Scheduler

Click on Scheduler –> Connect. You should get the following connection dialog:
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Type in your server name, and change any of the default connection information if necessary. Once connected, your screen should look something like this:
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Adding Custom Jobs to the Manager

Before we can add a custom job, we must first tell the application which dlls contain the jobs that we want to add. Adding dlls to the list of scanned dlls is done by editing the JobAssemblies.txt file. Just include the name of your dll in the file, by adding it to the bottom of the list.

Adding a Job to the Scheduler

To add or schedule a job on the scheduler that you are connected to, click on the Jobs –> Add menu. You should get a dialog box like this:
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Now, select a job type from the dropdown and fill out all the boxes with the necessary information. You do not need to add job data unless your job requires it. If your job requires job data to be set, use the right hand side of the dialog to add as many key value pairs of data as needed.
Once you have set up your data, click on add and your job will be scheduled. The dialog will close and the Scheduler objects pane will show the job that you scheduled.

What About the Run, Pause, Delete and Edit Buttons?

Part 2 of the tour is now available, with a quick description on how to use these buttons.

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Open Source Graphical User Interface (GUI) for Quartz.Net

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  • Date : November 1, 2010
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Click Forensics, the company I work for, has graciously allowed me to open source the code to a GUI for Quartz.net. The latest code is currently available on github.  We have been using Quartz.net for over a year and we use this tool to manage our schedulers. The application is written in C#, using windows forms and is targeting .Net 4.0
The code should be considered alpha quality at this point, as some features are missing and some don’t work properly. The documentation is pretty much non-existent at this point, but as I have some spare time I will post updates here and on github. Please give it a try send us any feedback you might have.
I would suggest you download the source and build it yourself, but for your convenience, you can download the binaries from https://github.com/adometry/QuartzNetManager/downloads.

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