How to emulate cron jobs on a Windows Server?

Question

I'm running .NET on a windows box and I would like to have a function run every night at midnight. Of course since HTTP stateless and Windows doesn't have a "cron job" type function (that I know of), I will either have to visit my site myself every night at midnight or just wait for a user to visit the site to rely on it being updated.

Is there an alternative to this that I can create where something will automatically run at a certain time?

Answer 1

I'm pretty sure that Windows' task scheduler can do most things that cron can do. But I might be missing something.

Edit: Reached at Settings -> Control Panel -> Scheduled Tasks