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Managing scheduled tasks

Author
1 Jun 2006 7:33 PM
Rob Oldfield
What is the best way of managing scheduled tasks?  My current requirement is
to be able to check on the status of tasks that are supposed to run overnight
- mostly to be able to check that they have all completed successfully.  I've
seen talk about wrappers being available but haven't managed to track one
down.

(I realise that I could just grab the log file and parse that down to get at
basic information, but that seems a bit of a kludge.)

Thanks for any ideas.

Author
2 Jun 2006 1:45 PM
Phil Wilson
There's a wrapper here:
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/tsnewlib.asp
--
Phil Wilson
[Microsoft MVP-Windows Installer]

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"Rob Oldfield" <RobOldfi***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B1B06DC2-4A82-4B73-9EC1-AE9144BF558E@microsoft.com...
> What is the best way of managing scheduled tasks?  My current requirement
> is
> to be able to check on the status of tasks that are supposed to run
> overnight
> - mostly to be able to check that they have all completed successfully.
> I've
> seen talk about wrappers being available but haven't managed to track one
> down.
>
> (I realise that I could just grab the log file and parse that down to get
> at
> basic information, but that seems a bit of a kludge.)
>
> Thanks for any ideas.
Author
2 Jun 2006 4:01 PM
Rob Oldfield
Took a bit of work to translate it to VB.Net, but now got it working as
required.  Many thanks.


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"Phil Wilson" wrote:

> There's a wrapper here:
> http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/tsnewlib.asp
> --
> Phil Wilson
> [Microsoft MVP-Windows Installer]
>
> "Rob Oldfield" <RobOldfi***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B1B06DC2-4A82-4B73-9EC1-AE9144BF558E@microsoft.com...
> > What is the best way of managing scheduled tasks?  My current requirement
> > is
> > to be able to check on the status of tasks that are supposed to run
> > overnight
> > - mostly to be able to check that they have all completed successfully.
> > I've
> > seen talk about wrappers being available but haven't managed to track one
> > down.
> >
> > (I realise that I could just grab the log file and parse that down to get
> > at
> > basic information, but that seems a bit of a kludge.)
> >
> > Thanks for any ideas.
>
>
>

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