
<h2>How to schedule a Azure WebJob</h2>
<p>
  Azure WebJob is back-end program you can run inside Azure, without Azure
  WebJob, you can deploy windows console app or windows service app to your
  server, then setup schedular via windows scheduler or other third-party
  windows scheduler tools. This blog will show you how to deploy Azure WebJob
  and how to scheduler. The Key technologies are following.
</p>
<ol>
  <li>
    <a
      href="https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/vs-2015-product-editions.aspx"
      target="_blank"
      >Visual Studio 2015</a
    >
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/" target="_blank">Azure</a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a
      href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-sites-create-web-jobs/"
      target="_blank"
      >About Azure WebJob</a
    >
  </li>
  <li>
    <a
      href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn495651.aspx"
      target="_blank"
      >Azure Scheduler Job Collections</a
    >
  </li>
  <li>
    <a
      href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dn802602.aspx"
      target="_blank"
      >C#(6.0)</a
    >
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="http://www.asp.net/" target="_blank">ASP.NET Web Application</a>
  </li>
</ol>
<p>
  About following example, we'll use Visual Studio 2015's ASP.NET template to
  create ASP.NET web application, also we'll use visual studio 2015's Azure Web
  Job template to create Azure WebJob, then we'll deploy the ASP.NET web
  application and Web Job to Azure. At the end, we'll setup scheduler to the
  deployed Web Job at Azure.
</p>
<h3>Create Azure Account</h3>
<p>
  First thing you have to do is create azure account, Azure has free trial
  period which give $200 for spend whithin first month. Once you create Azure
  account, you'll use the information for deployment.
</p>
<p>
  <img
    class="img-responsive"
    src="http://res.cloudinary.com/dmwrakaup/image/upload/v1460841423/elfdxtmyzkgjjiswbkx8.png"
    alt=""
  />
</p>
<h3>Create an ASP.NET Web Application</h3>
<p>
  You can create MVC or WEBAPI is fine, use ASP.NET Template to create web
  application.
</p>
<p>
  <img
    class="img-responsive"
    src="http://res.cloudinary.com/dmwrakaup/image/upload/v1460841422/x6ui82n1vsuhjsj6alp7.png"
    alt=""
  />
</p>
<h3>Create WebJob</h3>
<p>
  This is the key for this blog, we'll use Azure Cloud's Azure WebJob template
  to create app,&nbsp;
</p>
<p>
  <img
    class="img-responsive"
    src="https://d1p0mp3f1fx0hz.cloudfront.net/_dbv0qe756.png"
    alt=""
  />
</p>
<h3>Add &nbsp;WebJob Web Application</h3>
<p>
  At here, you'll add your webJob to the ASP.NET web application. The reason we
  do here is, when you deploy the web application, visual studio will also
  deploy the associate web job to Azure as well.
</p>
<p>
  <img
    class="img-responsive"
    src="https://d1p0mp3f1fx0hz.cloudfront.net/_qvlozqqcg.png"
    alt=""
  />
</p>
<p>
  Following is the example at ASP.NET Web application, which specify which
  WebJobs' path.
</p>
<pre class="language-json">
{
  "$schema": "http://schemastore.org/schemas/json/webjobs-list.json",
  "WebJobs": [
    {
      "filePath": "../WebJob1/TN.PS.WebJob.csproj"
    }
  ]
}
</pre>
<h3>Deploy Web Application</h3>
<p>
  You can deploy web application by click the ASP.NET's publish and fill out all
  the information, or you could just deploy the webJob project if you want.
</p>
<h3>Verify and run WebJob</h3>
<p>
  If have not setup scheduler but want to run the WebJob, you can either go to
  Azure, or use visual studio's Server Explorer to run the WebJob.
</p>
<p>
  Following is example at Visaul Studio 2015's server exploer, you can just
  right click the WebJob1 and run it.
</p>
<p>
  <img
    class="img-responsive"
    src="http://res.cloudinary.com/dmwrakaup/image/upload/v1460842260/xhkauzi8rz0vrc4mfkfc.png"
    alt=""
  />
</p>
<p>
  Following is at Azure Portal, under your web application find your webJob and
  right click the Run.
</p>
<p>
  <img
    class="img-responsive"
    src="https://d1p0mp3f1fx0hz.cloudfront.net/_utq4ykvpr.png"
    alt=""
  />
</p>
<h3>Call WebJob via Console App</h3>
<p>
  You can also call the Azure Cloud job via C#, following is the example code of
  how to call the Azure Web Job, it is using basic authentication, however you
  don't have to provide that information for testing, but it is better for
  production for more secure web application.
</p>
<pre class="language-csharp">
    /// &lt;summary&gt;
        /// following run on top of C# 6.0
        /// also require following azure App Service information
        /// &lt;/summary&gt;
        private static void Test()
        {
            try
            {
                //App Service Publish Profile Credentials 
                //userName 
                string userName = "";
                //userPWD 
                string userPassword = "";
                //change webJobName to your WebJob name 
                string webJobName = "";
                // change to your azure host name
                string azureHostName = "";

                var unEncodedString = string.Format($"{userName}:{userPassword}");
                var encodedString = Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(unEncodedString));

                //Change this URL to your WebApp hosting the  
                string URL = "https://" + azureHostName + ".scm.azurewebsites.net/api/triggeredwebjobs/" + webJobName + "/run";
                System.Net.WebRequest request = System.Net.WebRequest.Create(URL);
                request.Method = "POST";
                request.ContentLength = 0;
                request.Headers["Authorization"] = "Basic " + encodedString;
                using (System.Net.WebResponse response = request.GetResponse())
                {
                    using (System.IO.Stream dataStream = response.GetResponseStream())
                    {
                        using (System.IO.StreamReader reader = new System.IO.StreamReader(dataStream))
                        {
                            string responseFromServer = reader.ReadToEnd();
                            Console.WriteLine("OK");
                        }
                    }
                }
                  
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(ex.Message.ToString());
            }
        }
</pre>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h3>Setup a scheduler to the WebJob</h3>
<p>
  You could use following Azure Scheduler Job Collections for create a
  scheduler.
</p>
<p>
  <img
    class="img-responsive"
    src="http://res.cloudinary.com/dmwrakaup/image/upload/v1460841422/cltoe6s2pdw5klfvoyyu.png"
    alt=""
  />
</p>
<h3>Conclusion</h3>
<p>
  Azure WebJob is good if you don't want to host virtual machine, but just want
  to deploy web app and back ground system.
</p>
<h3>Reference</h3>
<ul>
  <li>
    <a
      href="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IntroducingWindowsAzureWebJobs.aspx"
      target="_blank"
      >Introducing Windows Azure WebJobs - Scott Hanselman</a
    >
  </li>
  <li>
    <a
      href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/websites-dotnet-webjobs-sdk-get-started/#comments"
      target="_blank"
      >Create a .NET WebJob in Azure App Service - Sample/Tutorial</a
    >
  </li>
  <li>
    <a
      href="https://github.com/Azure/azure-content/blob/master/articles/app-service-web/websites-dotnet-webjobs-sdk-get-started.md"
      target="_blank"
      >https://github.com/Azure/azure-content/blob/master/articles/app-service-web/websites-dotnet-webjobs-sdk-get-started.md</a
    >
  </li>
  <li>
    <a
      href="https://github.com/Azure/azure-content/blob/master/articles/app-service-web/websites-webjobs-resources.md"
      target="_blank"
      >Azure WebJobs documentation resources</a
    >
  </li>
  <li>
    <a
      href="https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Simple-Azure-Website-with-b4391eeb/view/Discussions#content"
      target="_blank"
      >Simple Azure Website with WebJobs using the WebJobs SDK</a
    >
  </li>
  <li>
    <a
      href="https://github.com/Azure/azure-content/blob/master/includes/install-sdk-2015-2013.md"
      target="_blank"
      >Set up the development environment</a
    >
  </li>
  <li>
    <a
      href="https://github.com/Azure/azure-content/blob/master/includes/free-trial-note2.md"
      target="_blank"
      >free trial note for Azure</a
    >
  </li>
  <li>
    <a
      href="http://www.asp.net/aspnet/overview/developing-apps-with-windows-azure/building-real-world-cloud-apps-with-windows-azure/queue-centric-work-pattern"
      target="_blank"
      >Queue-Centric Work Pattern</a
    >
  </li>
  <li>
    <a
      href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/services/sql-database/"
      target="_blank"
      >SQL Database documentation</a
    >
  </li>
  <li>
    <a
      href="http://www.asp.net/mvc/overview/getting-started/introduction/getting-started"
      target="_blank"
      >Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC 5</a
    >
  </li>
  <li>
    <a
      href="http://www.asp.net/aspnet/overview/developing-apps-with-windows-azure/building-real-world-cloud-apps-with-windows-azure/unstructured-blob-storage"
      target="_blank"
      >Unstructured Blob Storage</a
    >
  </li>
  <li>
    <a
      href="https://github.com/Azure/azure-webjobs-sdk-extensions/wiki/Binding-Extensions-Overview"
      target="_blank"
      >Binding Extensions Overview</a
    >
  </li>
  <li>
    <a
      href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/free-trial/?WT.mc_id=A49253D71"
      target="_blank"
      >Azure</a
    >
  </li>
</ul>


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