Mastering Quartz.NET: From Basics to a Full-Fledged Job Scheduling Service
Quartz.NET is a powerful, open-source job scheduling framework for .NET applications. It allows developers to schedule jobs—pieces of code that run on a schedule—like recurring tasks, background processing, or delayed operations. In this blog post, we'll walk through everything you need to build a full-service job scheduling system using Quartz.NET, including job setup, trigger configuration, persistence, and dynamic API-based management. 1. Getting Started To begin, you'll need to add Quartz.NET to your .NET Core project. We also recommend using its hosted service integration so it runs as a background service in your application. dotnet add package Quartz dotnet add package Quartz.Extensions.Hosting Now, register Quartz in your application's dependency injection system: builder.Services.AddQuartz(q => { q.UseMicrosoftDependencyInjectionJobFactory(); }); builder.Services.AddQuartzHostedService(q => { q.WaitForJobsToComplete...