Thread: Automating processes outside of the web to use Store code?

We would like to create a windows service (or scheduled task) to automate some special order processing.

1). Is this even possible?

2). Is there a recommended way to accomplish external processes?

Thanks

There are many ways of doing it. We have a number of .ashx pages which are called from windows schedule items.

Originally Posted by esedirect

There are many ways of doing it. We have a number of .ashx pages which are called from windows schedule items.

Interesting, can you give more details?

Here's the content of an .ashx page that is scheduled to run every day at 11:30 on our webserver:

Code:

<%@ WebHandler Language="C#" Class="YourPageNameHere" %>

using System;
using System.Web;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using AspDotNetStorefrontCore;

public class YourPageNameHere: IHttpHandler {
    
    public void ProcessRequest (HttpContext context) {
        DB.ExecuteSQL("EXEC YourSPNameHere");
		context.Response.Write("<root>This page is scheduled to run every day @11:30 and will auto-close after 2 mins.</root>");
    }
 
    public bool IsReusable {
        get {
            return false;
        }
    }

}

As you can see it outputs some text to the calling application, in this case IE, and it runs a stored procedure on the server. The scheduler closes the IE session after 2mins. Actually it could close it immediately because the sp returns nothing to the IE window.

I've changed the names to protect the innocent!