Question

I can’t find documentation anywhere on the syntax for Quartz.NET configuration files. I’d like to learn about

1. Configuring the service itself

2. Configuring jobs via the XML scheduler plugin.

I’ve seen plenty of examples, but I’m looking for a definitive syntax document that shows me all of my options.

Answer 1

I was having a heck of a time finding info on the config format as well. Turns out the Quartz.Net source contains a nice sample App.config file in src/Quartz.Examples. It looks like the snippet below, except that I’ve omitted the Common.Logging configuration, which is explained in detail (with an example) in the Common.Logging documentation.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
  <configSections>
    <section name="quartz" type="System.Configuration.NameValueSectionHandler, System, Version=1.0.5000.0,Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />
  </configSections>
  <quartz>
    <add key="quartz.scheduler.instanceName" value="ExampleDefaultQuartzScheduler" />
    <add key="quartz.threadPool.type" value="Quartz.Simpl.SimpleThreadPool, Quartz" />
    <add key="quartz.threadPool.threadCount" value="10" />
    <add key="quartz.threadPool.threadPriority" value="2" />
    <add key="quartz.jobStore.misfireThreshold" value="60000" />
    <add key="quartz.jobStore.type" value="Quartz.Simpl.RAMJobStore, Quartz" />
  </quartz>
</configuration>

J has a discussion of other configuration options in How Does Quartz.Net Configuration Work?, and I expect the best place to find a “complete” list of possible properties is the Java Quartz documentation that Andreas linked, though it should probably only be used as a guide to see Quartz.Net’s potential rather than true documentation per se since there are at least a couple differences.