Question

I have a long running, compute and disk intensive task that needs to run nightly on Window Server 2008; my Framework of choice is .NET 3.5 sp1. There’s a chance this task could fail too for any number of reasons (i.e. lack of disk space) and I’d like to make sure errors are handled & reported reasonably. Also, this task would require permission to do things like create a database connection and read/write to the file system. What options are available for getting things like this done?

Edit: My question is more about whether to use windows schedule or some other mechanism to kick off the process.

Answer 1

Create a Console Application. Inside the main() method, put a try-catch, and use SmtpClient to send notifications about unhandled exceptions. Compile it and add an entry to run it using the Scheduled Task applet.