I’ve been working on the Quartz.Net eBook and I have put together an outline of what the contents will be once it is finished. I thought I would share the table of contents with you and I would appreciate any comments you might have. I’m especially interested in getting feedback regarding which sections are more interesting and important for you.
Continue ReadingQuartz.Net ships with a plugin that allows you to schedule jobs using an xml configuration file. By default this configuration file is called quartz_jobs.xml. In this post I will describe how to schedule a job with a cron trigger using this xml format. Here are the contents of the XML file:
Continue ReadingI don’t usually include personal topics in this blog but I think I will give it a try going forward. This is my first post and it’s to encourage you to join me for this year’s Movember celebration.. My commitment is to grow a moustache for the month of November and by changing my appearance, raise vital awareness and funds for men’s health, specifically prostate and testicular cancer initiatives.
Continue ReadingIn this series of posts we will cover the use of calendars in Quartz.Net. In this first post we’ll start off by explaining what calendars are and what they’re used for. We’ll also describe all of the calendars that are included with the Quartz.Net distribution. In following posts we’ll look at examples of how to use the different calendars and eventually we’ll build our own custom calendar.
Continue ReadingIn this post we’ll walk through the creation of a custom Quartz.Net JobFactory that uses dependency injection to pass dependencies to our jobs. We’ll be using Castle Windsor for this example, but you can use any dependency injection framework you want. We discussed the Qartz.Net IJobFactory interface in detail previously, so read that first if you haven’t yet.
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