Question

I have to execute action once a day. It is to end users work time if they haven’t done it themselves.

Users can end their time by clicking on button that execute ActionResult in Controller:

[HttpPost] 
[Authorize] 
public ActionResult EndWork(...) 
{ 
    ... 
} 

How can I run action like that automatically every day at midnight? Do I have to use task scheduler or Windows Service for it? I can’t set trigger on database, because records are inserted to database by EndWork().
I have a MVC 3 website.

Any help much appreciated!

Answer 1

You can use following :

1. Write a windows service which keeps a watch on your DB and performs the action.

2. For scheduling, please see Quartz .Net