>>But the timer has to "live" somewhere and to me a form is just as good place for it as any :) And I understand that once the application starts (maybe after server reboots) it runs unattended. Simply connects to the SQL Server every # minutes and - based on some logic - emails or does nothing.
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>If you go the console app route, you set up Windows Task Scheduler to run it every n minutes.
>In essence, Task Scheduler provides your timer.
Yes, I understand. I actually have an application which is all reside in one .PRG file. And this .EXE is fired by my ASP.NET application. It works very well. So, I will base this program on the same .PRG approach.
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