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&gt;&gt;&gt;Thus the question: What are you exactly doing? Why and what for are those credentials needed? Maybe there is a different option.. especially as<br />
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My application connects to soap services (I have to pass userid/password to this soap service, which I am trying to encrypt) and gets xml data from the service and writes to text files <br />
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&gt;&gt;&gt;Also Windows service running under the appropriate Windows account may be a solution.<br />
How do I do that.. Is there any tutorial <br />
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Then use a ProtectedSection to store it.
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How do I do &quot;running applications on a scheduled basis&quot; using &quot;services&quot;... <br />
If I have to open another question please let me know <br />
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Using Windows services means that you create your own Windows service in C# and do your own scheduling. <br />
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See <a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/zt39148a%28v=vs.110%29.aspx" rel="ugc">Walkthrough: Creating a Windows Service Application in the Component Designer</a>.<br />
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Advantage of a Windows service is that you can create your own scheduling, start actions on different triggers, you may listen for events and even offer an REST API for communication.<br />
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When you only need to schedule a certain set of tasks at a certain time, then it is simpler to use the Windows Task scheduler. But here you should consider giving us more context.
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Thanks so much.. I am going through it
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Is there any tutorial to &quot;create web service to run something on scheduled basis&quot;...
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Web service?<br />
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Please, post more context. I don't have enough information to help you.
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Sorry &quot;windows service&quot; not &quot;web service&quot;
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My main requirement is to &quot;download data on regular basis... Data I have to download is available through web-service&quot;
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Imagine an iceberg. Your describing its peak. That's not sufficient.
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In my dataload application, I have to fetch data on a regular basis, like every hour... I have to read data from the soap-service &amp;&nbsp;write it to a database... I have to do it every hour....
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Can you please guide... Let me know if I have to open another question <br />
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Create a console application and use a Scheduled Task to execute it once every hour.
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I want to do my scheduled dataload through windows services <br />
How do I do that <br />
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Thanks so much... I found answer to my question... Thanks
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E.g. in your services worker thread:<br />
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<pre><code class="code-10 nolinks" id="code-20-41386850-1"><span>while ( this.continue )</span>
<span>{</span>
<span>  Thread.Sleep(schedulerResolution);</span>
<span>  foreach (Task task in this.tasklist)</span>
<span>  {</span>
<span>    if (DateTime.Now &gt; task.NextStartAt)</span>
<span>    {</span>
<span>      task.Execute();</span>
<span>    }</span>
<span>  }</span>
<span>}</span>
</code></pre>
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Ok thanks I will open another question as this question is on encryption of password
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I have a .NET Application created using c#. I have &nbsp;to pass userid password to that &nbsp;Application... I have to run that Application on a scheduled basis... So I created a batch file that runs on schedule... How can I securely pass the userid password to that application.. I can store userid-password in a config file which can be referred by my c# application.. But I want to store in encrypted form, so nobody can see the password <br />
Pl guide. Thanks so much
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I have a .NET Application created using c#. I have  to pass userid password to that  Application... I have to run that Application on a scheduled basis... So I created a batch file that runs on schedule... How can I securely pass the userid password to that application.. I can store userid-password in a config file which can be referred by my c# application.. But I want to store in encrypted form, so nobody can see the password 
Pl guide. Thanks so much

Store password for c# application  in encrypted form

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