How to Schedule a task in windows azure worker role
azure, c#
Solution
There are several other questions here that deal with this (and I've marked one above). Having said that, and at the risk of repeating what other answers already state:
In your case, a simple message on a Windows Azure Queue, time-delayed to not show up until noon, would work. This also helps deal with multi-instance scenarios: If you're running two instances of your role, you don't want the same scheduled task running twice, so you need a way to have only one of those instances execute this code. This is easily handled via queue message, or you could run scheduler code on a single instance by using something like a blob lease (which may only have one write-lock against it) as a mutex. This is covered in @smarx's blog post, here.
Problem
I have a simple Azure Worker role running that performs a task every day at 12 PM. Below is the code that accomplishes this. ``` public override void Run() { try { while (true) { int time = Convert.ToInt32(DateTime.Now.TimeOfDay); if (time == 12) { DoSomethingElse(); } } } catch (Exception ex) { Log.Add(ex, true); } } ``` Here `DoSomethingElse()` is a method to send an email at every day 12 PM, and also fires once and only once per day. How can I implement a scheduler that fire when the time is 12PM and execute `DoSomethingElse()`. My question is: Is this (above code) is the best method or use any 3rd party tool.