Re: thread scheduling, how??

"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <skeet@pobox.com> wrote in message
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> On Dec 14, 9:31 am, "Jeff" <do...@spam.me> wrote:
>> I'm working on a winservice created in .NET 2.0. Now I want to do some
>> modications to this winservice. I want this winservice at every start of
>> a
>> new month to start a thread which pulls data from several webservices and
>> saves these data to table...
>>
>> So I'm wondering how to go about implementing this so that this thread is
>> automatically started at a specific time. (lets say 03:30 am at day 1 on
>> each month).
>>
>> maybe the winservice framework has some features for this?
>
> Is there any reason to put this into the windows service rather than
> just using a Windows scheduled task?

The other option, if a service is needed, would be to leave a thread
sleeping with a waitable timer, not sure what the .NET wrapper for the
waitable timer API is.

But definitely better not to have a service started when not needed.

>
> Jon