Im currently working on an application, written using ASP & VB.NET, that records a date indicating when a particular action must be followed up by. Id like to use some kind of a background process, or demon, or Windows, service to trigger an automated email that will inform the user that the user the deadline is approaching. If anyone has suggestions or references for a good way to approach this Id be grateful. Many thanks.
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You could write a separate small application that checks for key dates and sends out an email if the key date has been reached (or is approaching), then flag when that particular alert has been sent. Then you can set up a scheduled task via control panel to run that application every minute, hour, day, week, whatever suits.
That would be the simplest solution if the trigger wasn't time-critical to the minute and you have direct access to the web server settings.
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by: pivarPosted on 2009-03-15 at 14:24:13ID: 23893230
Hi,
If you have the data in sql server you could schedule a job that uses sp_send_dbmail to send email.
Here's a link to an example of writing the sql code:
http://www.experts-exchang
Here are links on howto create and schedule a job:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/
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