3.17 Schedules, Schedules, Schedules

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Like the white rabbit in Alice in Wonderland suggests, keeping dates is important, and dropping a schedule can have some pretty bad effects. Most organizations have routine tasks that must be executed hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly. With the increasing demand for immediate business results, a number of large organizations are able to determine their financial position on a daily basis by executing scheduled tasks.

Visual Studio.NET has extended the scheduling capability from earlier versions of Visual Studio so that complex schedules and tasks can be set up. The schedule component is dragged from the toolbox into the Component Designer, and then properties are set to determine when the component wakes and executes a task (see Figure 3.9).

Figure 3.9: Components in the toolbox.

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