ASP.NET MVC HangFire - Execute Jobs in Background using SQLServer

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Introduction

This tip walks you through configuration of HangFire.

"An easy way to perform fire-and-forget, delayed and recurring tasks inside ASP.NET applications" - http://hangfire.io/

We can easily configure different types of jobs (recurring, schedule or fire and forget).

STEP 1 - Create ASP.NET Web Application

• Open Visual Studio 2015 and create a new project of type ASP.NET Web Application.
• On this project, I create a solution called HangFire.

  

• Press OK, and a new screen will appear, with several options of template to use on our project.
• Select the option MVC.

  

STEP 2 - Install Nuget

In order to use HangFire, we need to install a Nuget package.

We can install using the Package Manager Console:

• PM> Install-Package HangFire -Version 1.4.6

Or using the Visual Studio Nuget Management:

STEP 3 - Configure Startup Class

Need to provide connection string to our database.~

using Hangfire; 
using Microsoft.Owin; 
using Owin; 
using System; 
 
[assembly: OwinStartupAttribute(typeof(HangFire.Startup))] 
namespace HangFire 
{ 
    public partial class Startup 
    { 
        public void Configuration(IAppBuilder app) 
        { 
            ConfigureAuth(app); 
 
            GlobalConfiguration.Configuration 
                .UseSqlServerStorage("connectionString"); 
 
            BackgroundJob.Enqueue(() => Console.WriteLine("Fire-and-forget!")); 
 
            app.UseHangfireDashboard(); 
            app.UseHangfireServer(); 
        } 
    } 
}

STEP 4 - Run

Run application using its address followed by /hangfire, like in the image below:

When we run this address for the first time, a new table will be created on our database.

Resources

Some good resources about Signal could be found here:

• My personal blog: http://joaoeduardosousa.wordpress.com/
• http://hangfire.io/
• Source code: https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/ASPNET-MVC-HangFire-bb45a2fe