Run aspx file every hour

Question

I have an aspx file on my windows 2012 server, I've come from Linux servers so i'm used to cron jobs. I googled and found a lot of talk of using the Task Scheduler, but all the documentation is on Microsoft's site and is completely impossible to understand for anyone that doesn't have a PhD in English.

Can anybody that has experience help me out?

Answer 1

I don't know if it's possible for you to do or not, but if you take the logic from your aspx page and turn it into a Web Service, you can create a simple console application (.exe) that executes your Web Service code. The task scheduler would call the executable instead of opening a browser.