Arebis.MvcDashboardTasks 8.1.4

Introduction

This component contains an ASP.NET Core MVC 8 item template consisting of:

• A DbContext schema for holding scheduled task information in database,
• A hosted (background) service to execute scheduled tasks,
• A dashboard to manage scheduled tasks.

Installation

To install the project item template (to be done once per developer machine):

dotnet new install Arebis.MvcDashboardTasks

To add the package to an ASP.NET Core MVC 8 project, from the project folder:

dotnet new MvcDashboardTasks

Or from the the solution folder:

dotnet new MvcDashboardTasks -n <WebProjectName>

Setup

Once the package added to your project, add following service registrations in Program.cs or Startup.cs:

builder.Services.AddDbContext<MyMvcApp.Data.Tasks.ScheduledTasksDbContext>(options =>
    options.UseSqlServer(
        builder.Configuration.GetConnectionString("DefaultConnection")));

builder.Services.AddHostedService<MyMvcApp.Tasks.TaskScheduler>();

(Where "MyMvcApp" is the project name/namespace of your ASP.NET MVC App.)

Also make sure you have a route registered to handle ASP.NET MVC Areas:

app.MapControllerRoute(
    name: "area",
    pattern: "{area:exists}/{controller=Home}/{action=Index}/{id?}");

This route registration must be added before the default route registration.

Finally, start your ASP.NET MVC application and navigate to /MvcDashboardTasks. Run the database migrations if requested.

Press the Get Started button on the dashboard home page for further information.