Mastering Scheduled Tasks in .NET with Cronos Cronos is a task scheduling library for .NET that allows scheduling and executing tasks at specific times or intervals using the CRON pattern. In this article, I will present how to set up and use task scheduling in the background in a .NET...

Scheduling one or more background tasks is almost inevitable when building robust, self-sustaining APIs with .NET. A few packages have been around for years, such as Hangfire and Quartz.NET. ASP.NET Core allows background tasks to be implemented as hosted services. However, you might need something more customizable and lightweight with...

Sometimes you need to run scheduled tasks for your .NET web app. Automated report creation, status checks, routine admin tasks, that sort of thing. I spent the last few weeks migrating Practical ASP.NET to .NET 8 (static SSR). One requirement involved sending data to an external service. For this I...