Regardless of whether we should, can we use IHostedService in an Azure Functions App? Here is an attempt to register a hosted service (background service, specifically) as IHostedService: interna...

I am totally new to ASP.NET Core so I am probably missing something by 50 miles because I've spent 3 hours on this to no avail. I've made a Web App from within VS 2017, hosted by Kestrel which run...

In our ASP.Net Core Web API, we have used Hosted Services to perform some background tasks. Sometimes it is possible that these background tasks to take a long time to complete (about an hour). Eve...

Is it possible to run an IHostedService on only one instance of a scaled out Azure App Service in ASP.NET Core? Or would the solution be to run this IHostedService in its own app service with one i...

I am having the following Timer to run in .Net core Ihosted Service, TimeSpan ScheduledTimespan; string[] formats = { @"hh\:mm\:ss", "hh\\:mm" }; string strTime = Startup.Configuration["AppSetting...

I'm trying to implement a hosted service and I was wondering what I am expected to do with the CancellationToken in the IHostedService.StartAsync call. There is quite a lot in the Microsoft docume...

Back in .net core 2, I had created a hosted service with a custom property like: public class MyService : BackgroundService { public bool IsRunning {get;set;} ... That I could setup in startup...

I have a .NET Core 2.2 web API that can be scaled out to several instances based on demand. This API has a background service (IHostedService) that should only run on one of the instances at a time...

In our MultiTenant ASP.NET Core 2.2 app, we determine the tenant from the URI. How can get the website URL from an IHostedService? The HttpContext is always null. The IHttpContextAccessor.HttpCon...

I've created a hosted service that executes a recurring task in .Net-Core. (I'm using shared hosting so I don't have control over iis) public class SchedulerService : IHostedService { private re...

I have a hosted service that checks an email account every minute. I also am using MVC with Web API 2.1. In order to get my hosted service to start, I have to "wake it up" by calling API methods. A...

I'm doing some tests with the new Background tasks with hosted services in ASP.NET Core feature present in version 2.1, more specifically with Queued background tasks, and a question about parallel...

How to write to the database on a timer in the background. For example, check mail and add new letters to the database. In the example, I simplified the code just before writing to the database. T...

I am trying to build a small tcp server/daemon with asp.net core as a web frontend to interact with the server. I have found IHostedService/BackgroundService which seems to provide a low effort alt...

My .net core app needs to crawl data in a specified time interval. I have chosen to implement IHostedService to run it in parallel with API. The hosted service needs some services injected. I...

I'm looking at .Net-Core 2.1 new feature Hosted Services, I see that they are very similarly modelled to QueueBackgroundWorkItem The Queue Background work item seems to have a limitation that the ...

I have a QueueTask Hosted service (.NET Core's new background service) that I'd like to test. My queuedHosted service looks like so: public QueuedHostedService(IServiceProvider serviceProvider, IBa...