Checking Your Cron Expression’s Schedule

If you’re using the CronTrigger to fire your Quartz.Net job, then you’ll have to come up with a CronExpression that generates the schedule you want. Sometimes you may not be sure if it’s the correct schedule or maybe Quartz.Net doesn’t fire when you want it to. There are multiple reasons why a trigger doesn’t fire when it should but perhaps the first thing to look at is whether you’ve got the correct CronExpression.

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Understanding the DisallowConcurrentExecution Job Attribute

In this post I’ll go over what the DisallowConcurrentExecution job attribute does and how to use it. Documentation The Quartz.net documentation states that the DisallowConcurrentExecutionAttribute is An attribute that marks a IJob class as one that must not have multiple instances executed concurrently (where instance is based-upon a IJobDetail definition - or in other words based upon a JobKey.

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Windows 8 Left Justified Menus

I’ve been running into some issues with my work laptop where all the menus are getting left justified from time to time. I’m not sure why it keeps happening and it doesn’t happen on any of my other Windows 8 machines. However, this is the fix: Press Windows+R Type this command into the the run command window:

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Quartz.Net – The ITrigger Interface

In this post we document the ITrigger interface for Quartz.net. This simple post is one of the documentation series of posts, so it only documents classes and interfaces that are not documented online. Here is the ITrigger interface in all its glory: namespace Quartz { /// <summary> /// The base interface with properties common to all <see cref="

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