> Hello,
>
> We are trying to implement a solution for a project requirement for
> which we need to have multiple services running to support offline
> functionality such as the transmission of emails to subscribed users
> and the publishing of content on specific schedules.  In doing this we
> would like to re-use a lot of the libraries we have already built for
> the web application and, more specifically, re-use all of the
> configuration files which have already been established for the web
> application.
>
> One solution for this is to spawn threads within the Application_Start
> event of the web application which will run continously and handle the
> offline tasks at their set schedules.  This is probably the easiest
> solution to implement, however the only problem is that these threads
> will only be spawned when the first request is made to the web server.
>
> Is there any other event trigger we could work off of that would be
> executed when the web service restarts?  Also, are there any
> complications we should expect in going with this solution, or are
> there any better solutions we should be looking into?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> John Fleming
>

"John" <jflemin***@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> We are trying to implement a solution for a project requirement for
> which we need to have multiple services running to support offline
> functionality such as the transmission of emails to subscribed users
> and the publishing of content on specific schedules.  In doing this we
> would like to re-use a lot of the libraries we have already built for
> the web application and, more specifically, re-use all of the
> configuration files which have already been established for the web
> application.
>
> One solution for this is to spawn threads within the Application_Start
> event of the web application which will run continously and handle the
> offline tasks at their set schedules.  This is probably the easiest
> solution to implement, however the only problem is that these threads
> will only be spawned when the first request is made to the web server.
>
> Is there any other event trigger we could work off of that would be
> executed when the web service restarts?  Also, are there any
> complications we should expect in going with this solution, or are
> there any better solutions we should be looking into?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> John Fleming
>