What is the simplest way to run some command once every 5 min in Window OS / VS?

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In the Linux world, the simplest way is to use a Cron job. There is no Cron in Windows. There is however Services, but that seem to be a lot of work. What is the simplest way so a set of commands will run every 5 min or so?

To be more specific, the commands I need to run consist of moving some files, and updating a database. Possibly written in C# so it's slightly more complicated than just a BAT script.

I second Task Scheduler. Very handy to save you from the trouble of developing services. I recommend to write a C# console application. — Uwe Keim, May 18 '12 at 16:01
Maybe check into Quartz.net too? It's a .NET based job scheduler - http://quartznet.sourceforge.net/ — Mike Christensen, May 18 '12 at 16:04

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered May 18 '12 at 16:01

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Task Scheduler is probably the best way to go, though an alternative is http://cronw.sourceforge.net/ It runs as a system service and only requires perl.

answered May 18 '12 at 16:01

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Sounds good, I'll accept this answer in 10min after it becomes available. – Bill Software Engineer May 18 '12 at 16:02
Task Scheduler is certainly the best way to handle this natively in Windows (though there are, of course, alternatives). You can do a large array of stuff including having a service run at set intervals as well making the service run at Windows start-up (before a user logs in). – Christopher Jones May 18 '12 at 16:13

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 18 '12 at 16:02

You can ofcourse run C# executables from batch files or even directly from Task Scheduler. Open Task Scheduler and enter the path of your executable and configure it to run every 5 minutes. Make sure that appropriate version of .NET framework is installed.

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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Quartz.NET – This is a very complete cron job library. By far it has the most features.
NCrontab – This is a simpler library that implements a cron scheduler (no cron job).

For details see a link.
http://blog.bobcravens.com/2009/10/an-event-based-cron-scheduled-job-in-c/
and this question of SO also help You.
What is equivelant of CRON jobs in ASP.NET - C#

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What is the simplest way to run some command once every 5 min in Window OS / VS?

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