19balazs86/PlayingWithGenericHost

Try out the GenericHost / WorkerService and running as a Windows Service.

Playing with GenericHost

This console application demonstrates the use of GenericHost as known WorkerService.

You can find a few examples of running background jobs in different ways.

What is the HostBulder?

• HostBuilder is a lightweight version of the WebHostBuilder and it does not process HTTP requests.
• HostBuilder similarly like the WebHostBuilder, allows to configure services, using dependency injection, HttpClientFactory, logging + Serilog and so on.

Run this application as a Windows Service

1. Publish the application with the predefined PublishAsWinService.pubxml (c:\svc)
2. Run the WinServiceCommands.bat file (create, start, stop, delete functions)

Examples

• PrinterService: a simple example of using BackgroundService as a base class.
• FileWriterService: a simple example of using IHostedService and a Timer in it.
• Quartz: using the Quartz-scheduler / Quartz.NET to create background process timing with cron expression.
• Use the System.Threading.Channels library to create a bounded channel/in-memory queue by utilizing IAsyncEnumerable.
• Example of scheduling repeating tasks 📽️12min-NickChapsas using PeriodicTimer.
• Example of Producer-Consumer pattern with TPL Dataflow.
• Azure Application Insights for WorkerService 👤My repository.
• Hangfire example 👤My repository.

Resources

• 📚 Microsoft:
  • .NET Generic Host
  • Background tasks with hosted services
  • Host ASP.NET Core in a Windows Service
• IHostedLifecycleService interface in .NET 8 📓Steve Gordon
• Schedule Jobs with Quartz.NET 📓Code-Maze
• Scheduling background tasks with Quartz 📽️11min-Milan (nice solution by using IConfigureOptions)
• Too many timers in .NET 📓Meziantou - Gérald Barré
• 📓 Andrew Lock
  • Creating a Quartz.NET hosted service
  • Using scoped services inside a Quartz.NET hosted service
  • Introducing IHostLifetime and untangling the Generic Host startup interactions
• System Threading Channels
  • System.Threading.Channels Namespace 📚Microsoft-Learn
  • Introduction to System.Threading.Channels 📓Steve Gordon
  • Exploring System.Threading.Channels 📓Nicolas Portmann
  • Producer-Consumer application with Channels 📓Code-Maze
• TPL Dataflow
  • Implementing the producer-consumer pattern with TPL Dataflow 📓Mark Heath
  • Task Parallel Library (TPL) 📚Microsoft-Learn
  • Implement a producer-consumer dataflow pattern 📚Microsoft-Learn
• Coravel (Task Scheduling, Caching, Queuing, Event Broadcasting)
  • Easiest scheduling with Coravel 📽️11 min - NickChapsas
  • Scheduled job with Worker Service 📓James Hickey