what is the use of Timerjobs in sharepoint development.

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  Hi,

  you may create timer job when you dont need any user interface:

  1. Send Report or Data from sharepoint site to user at specific time or day such as Daily / weekly / Monthly / Yearly

  2. If you have to do some operation at every minute or at some specific frequency

  3. If you have any schedule task or activity

  Here is some good example to create timer job:

  http://dotnetfinder.wordpress.com/2010/07/24/creatingcustomsharepointtimerjob2010/

  http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/sharepoint/SharePoint-2010-Custom-416cd3a1

  Hope it could help

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  • Proposed as answer by Dirk Van den Berghe Monday, June 4, 2012 1:23 PM
  • Marked as answer by Jack-GaoModerator Friday, June 15, 2012 11:24 AM

  Monday, June 4, 2012 12:04 PM

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  Hello Hemendra.

  I'm having the same kind of question above, I know a Timer Job is a class inheriting from SPJobDefinition and all what this link talks about http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/.net-tools/a-complete-guide-to-writing-timer-jobs-in-sharepoint-2010/ 

  But I would like to know if I can execute external tasks, I mean execute a batch file, call a web service, call DLL classes, etc.

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  Ivan Dario Ospina C#.NET, T-SQL Developer

  Wednesday, June 27, 2012 7:25 PM