Shared storage between C# console application and ASP.NET WebForms application

Question

There are some C# console applications that started by Windows scheduler.
How can I gather work progress from any of them (using internal data available only in concrete console application)?

In other words, I want to show some data from running console application on my asp.net webforms website.

How can i do this?

Answer 1

Host a http server inside the console app that the website can communicate with. I already kind of do this using self host signal r inside a tray application and it works a treat.

https://github.com/SignalR/SignalR/wiki/Self-host

Answer 2

I would preferred old good .NET Remouting for this (check out simple example for it). But you can use WCF with NetNamedPipesBinding or NetTcpBinding binding.