Pro EP 14 : Hangfire in .NET

💡 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧.𝐍𝐄𝐓
Hang fire is open-source and used to schedule jobs with a simple implementation in .NET Core , it can create process and manage our background jobs with available methods in it. It is reliable and persistent along with monitoring facility.

🎯 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐔𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐭
1. Install Hang fire via Nuget Package
2. Add its configuration in Program.cs
3. Use it

🎯 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐐𝐋
We need to provide a SQL database connection string in Program.cs for its working but we don’t need to create tables it will take care of it on its own.

🎯 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐬
As a developer we often come up with situations where we need to send the mass notifications/emails/reports/Events so we can utilize it. It supports CRON expression and we can schedule events of all kind minutely/daily/weekly/monthly/yearly. Apart from that we have options to schedule events on the basis of some events as well

Suppose, If you want that on the completion of some ABC job I want to run a XYZ then we can do it with Hangfire method ContinueJobWith as shown in second example of code snippets.

Let’s add it in Program.cs

Add this piece of code for scheduling

After that you will see that tables have been created in your database

Using SQL Query we can check our scheduled jobs

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