What's the best way to implement a scheduled job using a windows service

Question

I have a database job that runs occasionally at night and I need a windows service to poll the database regularly to do some more work after the SQL job is done. I am a looking for a solid example to write a scheduler that can fail gracefully without crashing the service.

Answer 1

Take a look at http://codeplex.com/TaskService

Answer 2

Just make it a scheduled task. See windows service vs scheduled task

Answer 3

I would use MSMQ, add a final step to the job that adds a message to the queue (Via ActiveX Script / COM or a .net call if you can)

Then have your service monitoring the Queue.

As far as not crashing the service, that would all be up to you and error handling etc...