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We have a website where we need a scheduler to receive notifications (e-mail) on specific time. eg. a person setting reminder at 5 PM to attend the meeting at 4:45 PM, will receive email at 4:45 PM about same.
As this site is hosted on shared server, we don’t have any control over the server to run any SQL Job or scheduler application.
Is there anything in asp.net which can help in this scenario?
How about this: Simulate a Windows Service using ASP.NET to run scheduled jobs.
At one point this technique was used on Stack Overflow, although I don’t think it is any more.
To be honest it seems like a nasty, error-prone hack to me, but if you’re unable to run anything on the server except your website then something like this is probably your only option.