Feb 27 2009
Resources for Creating Custom Timer Jobs
After finishing up a custom timer job project, I relied on several resources to get the job done. here are some links I found very helpful:
- Andrew Connel’s articles:
- http://andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2007/01/10/5704.aspx
- http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/articles/CreatingCustomSharePointTimerJobs.aspx
- http://andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2007/07/02/6067.aspx
- http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2008/04/15/More-help-on-creating-custom-timer-jobs-and-a-useful.aspx
- MSDN article – http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc406686.aspx
- Logging – http://trentacular.com/2008/12/sharepoint-logging-and-microsofts-trace-log-provider/
- Scheduling using more natural language – http://blogs.msdn.com/markarend/archive/2007/01/16/spschedule-fromstring-recurrencevalue-syntax-format-for-recurrence-value.aspx
- Feature Help:
- xmlns comment at bottom of this page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms436075.aspx
- Debugging feature receivers: http://bphillips76.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!F9B548E4C21D6166!445.entry
- Note section of this page, talking about proper permissions necessary for your feature files: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms460318.aspx
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