Polling a webpage periodically

Question

I have a website where I need to poll a webpage in every minute or so. The page on the server will perform different task. I am trying to use Windows Scheduled Tasks, but that cannot be set to run in every minute. I know that there is cron jobs for this on Linux, but that is not available on Windows.

Any ideas how to do this on Windows?

Answer 1

Try with windows service. It can be set to start when system is started up without the need for someone to log in. Also check this article http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/WindowsServiceScheduler.aspx