Smartphone Developer Forum - Event Scheduling

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Event Scheduling

Joseph Geretz

2005-12-06, 7:10 pm

What's the best way for me to schedule an event, to occur either at fixed
intervals, or at a specific time?

A) Should I have my program running in the background, waiting for the
specific time or interval?

Or B), is there a way to schedule my program with the OS so that the OS will
launch my program at a specific time or interval?

I'm guessing that option B will be more robust since with option A, the user
might terminate my program. Or is there a way to engineer this as a service
which will be running constantly?

Thanks for any advice which you can offer.

Joseph Geretz

John Spaith [MS]

2005-12-06, 7:10 pm

You're correct option B is the much safer option. Look up CeRunAppAtTime
API. I think there's some quirks with this API (I've never written code
using it so I'm not %100) so you should read up on the docs and read up on
the newsgroups before diving in.

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John Spaith
Software Design Engineer, Windows CE
Microsoft Corporation

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"Joseph Geretz" <jgeretz@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:eNFvI6m%23FHA.2264@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> What's the best way for me to schedule an event, to occur either at fixed
> intervals, or at a specific time?
>
> A) Should I have my program running in the background, waiting for the
> specific time or interval?
>
> Or B), is there a way to schedule my program with the OS so that the OS
> will launch my program at a specific time or interval?
>
> I'm guessing that option B will be more robust since with option A, the
> user might terminate my program. Or is there a way to engineer this as a
> service which will be running constantly?
>
> Thanks for any advice which you can offer.
>
> Joseph Geretz
>
>
>

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