Question

my problem is follow:

I have an auctioneer site, in which many different objects will be auctioneerd.

My problem is very simple to clear for an more experience user I thinK. How I can handle business and database logic without opened a site or them?

My problem is to say directly, if nights at 3 no user is on the site, the winner (e.g.) must be set – if a page is opened or not.

So I need some kind of “every 2 seconds, do this method” – without opened a site.

My idea was a sepereate application which uses the same business and database-layer as the asp.net page and let this run at the server. Is that a good or bad idea?

Answer 1

The separate process (scheduled app or Windows service) is the only reliable way you can achieve this.

Using the same BLL and DAL are exactly the right thing to do too.

Check out this article on windows services http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa984074(VS.71).aspx