Question

I have a web application developed in C# that retrieves data from a database and writes the retrieved to a file. What i need to do is to be able to run this web app regularly on my server(Microsoft server), say once a day to update the data. I think using a schedular would be the way to do it but I don’t know how to get it to run my web app i.e my .sln file. I looked at the post below for ideas:
Running a web app automatically
but need a little more guidance.

Answer 1

You could write a console application which will send an HTTP request to the web application:

class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        using (var client = new WebClient())
        {
            var result = client.DownloadString("http://example.com/test.aspx");
            File.WriteAllText("foo.txt", result);
        }
    }
}

and then configure the Windows Scheduler to run this console application at given time.