For a few months now I have been working on a Quartz.Net eBook. So far I have managed to write a total of 40 pages, out of which about 15 make up the Getting Started section. This section is almost complete. I am reviewing it and will make it available for free on this blog as soon as it has been cleaned up.
Continue ReadingWe recently upgraded one of our application to .Net 4.0. As part of this upgrade, we also upgraded out Quartz.net jobs to run on the 4.0 version of the .Net framework. The process was fairly straightforward, but not without surprises, so I figured I would post it here in case it’s useful.
Continue ReadingIf you use Quartz.Net and you want to do anything other than run a batch file, then chances are you’ll want to create a custom job. Fortunately, creating it is not hard at all. Let’s get started. Here’s a quick rundown of what you need to do. First, you’ll need to add a reference to Quartz.
Continue ReadingIf you’re considering using Quartz.Net, chances are you are using log4net as the logging framework for your application. We’ll assume that you already know how to configure log4net and that you just want to plug that configuration into Quartz.Net. So, how do we configure Quartz.Net to use log4net? It’s not terribly complicated, since Quartz.
Continue ReadingIn Part 4, we explained how to configure jobs in detail. In this final installment of the series we’ll describe how to configure two kinds of triggers: the CronTrigger and the SimpleTrigger. In keeping with the previous posts, we will configure the triggers in the quartz_jobs.xml file. Part 4 included a sample configuration of a CronTrigger, so let’s start with this.
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