Can't create Quartz.NET Scheduler in ASP.NET MVC 5

Question

After upgrading my Application to ASP.NET MVC 5 (.NET 4.5), I get the following error when creating a Scheduler client:

Type 'System.Web.HttpContextWrapper' in Assembly 'System.Web, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' is not marked as serializable.

The exception is thrown here:

var sf = new StdSchedulerFactory();
var sched = sf.GetScheduler();

The Web.Config:

<quartz>
  <add key="quartz.scheduler.instanceName" value="RemoteClient" />
  <add key="quartz.threadPool.type" value="Quartz.Simpl.SimpleThreadPool, Quartz" />
  <add key="quartz.threadPool.threadCount" value="5" />
  <add key="quartz.threadPool.threadPriority" value="Normal" />
  <add key="quartz.scheduler.proxy" value="true" />
  <add key="quartz.scheduler.proxy.address" value="tcp://127.0.0.1:555/QuartzScheduler" />
</quartz>

Answer 1

Quartz.NET should definitely work inside ASP.NET (MVC) application with .NET 3.5, 4.0 and 4.5. There should be no place where HTTP context would be serialized.

• Check other lib issues, for example Glimpse has had trouble with this earlier