I have a wcf web service hosted at discountasp. It is working fine in silverlight and from VS, but I would like to run a scheduler to trigger a particular function once a week. I believe it can be done by calling my service from html using some javascript for help but I havent been able to get any of the examples I looked at working. Any advice on how to accomplish this? Can the scheduler call directly into and trigger a service method? thanks
I'm assuming you're referring to the Scheduled Task utility that's in the DiscountASP.NET Control Panel? If so, the utility will not follow redirects, it just makes a simple HTTP call to a file and if a HTTP 200 response is returned from the web server, it's considered complete. Since there needs to be some data submitted to invoke a particular method, I don't think there's an easy way around it. I know it's probably the least advanced solution that you might hear but there was a particular script that I needed to run every ten minutes. I ended up creating a batch file that launched Internet Explorer with a URL appended to it and had it run as a scheduled task in Windows XP. It worked like a charm as it bypassed a lot of the limitations but I ended up throwing in some JavaScript code to close the browser window as I had forgot that it was running and you could imagine how many windows were open.
I wanted to use the tool at https://my.discountasp.net/scheduled-task.aspx to trigger a web service method by accessing a webpage I got this expired cache thing working, it wasnt repeating like it was supposed to but I can trigger it to run one time from the scheduled-task http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/ASPNETService.aspx pretty cool work around that guy figured out... what a coworker showed me which I got working and seems really easy compared to everything else I found from googling.. is this... start menu -> microsoft visual studio 2008 -> visual studio tools -> visual studio command prompt then using the command wsdl, do : wsdl /? for info if you run wsdl http://www.mysite.com/MyService.svc it will create a Myservice.cs file which you can then add to an asp web app project, then you can reference the webservice in your project like this using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Web; using System.Web.UI; using System.Web.UI.WebControls; namespace WebApplication { public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page { protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { MyService myService = new MyService(); string message = myService.GetTest(); } } } and trigger it from scheduled-task.aspx by pointing to in this case http://www.mysite.com/Default.aspx I think you can pass values by putting them in the url
I see... I had done that with my silverlight app, never built asp.net site before which is why I was asking about javascript to trigger my webservice. Wouldnt have minded that info a few days ago, but still I learned a lot in the process. Thanks for letting me know you can just add web service to asp app. I feel like I knew that, but I dont think any of the dozens of web searches I did returned anything suggesting such. They all had convoluted ways of doing it...
Hi, Thanks for your solution. But, these methods wont work for me. I am working in a shared server platform and the package required for creating the perl object through "new Perl" is not installed and not possible for installation also. I need some htaccess way if possible. Also, I would like to know if there is some method by which PHP will run from HTML pages and also SSI will run to execute perl scripts. Might be I am asking too much in one go