Here's what I need...

I've got some C# code that grabs data out of a SQL Server db and posts to Twitter. I'm running it on my local dev pc right now but I'd like to have it hosted remotely.

I need to have the code run every five minutes, based on the server time; do you allow the installation of custom Windows services on your servers?

If not, can you suggest an alternative?

 

Hi,
The SQL Servers here are on their own boxes, not hosted on the site boxes.
The Sites are all Shared so no installations are allowed.
You do however have access to Full Trust on the sites and you can code from SQL Server to a page on your site then have it talk to Twitter.
There are ASP.NET Silverlight apps doing this now.

The part about no custom installations is good news as it is there for the security of all.
All the best,
Mark

 

Mark,

Thanks for the reply.

My Twitter app is WPF and runs from my desktop; it uses the DispatcherTimer class to update Twitter from my SQL Server every five minutes on a countdown.

My problem is that I seem to be running into the 1,000 Twitter API call ceiling. I want to tweet more updates for my followers, but I'm limited by my account (I use the TwitterLib class library). I'd like to enable users to do their own automated tweeting.

So...back to the question: on your servers, how could I initiate a looping 360 second countdown to fire my tweet code?

 

Hi,
I'm not an employee, suggest you Email DASP directly with that Q: [email protected]
All the best,
Mark