dotnet-background-services

What problem does it solve?

This Skill provides guidance on implementing and managing long-running background operations in .NET applications, ensuring reliable execution and graceful shutdown.

Core Features & Use Cases

• BackgroundService & IHostedService: Understand patterns for both BackgroundService (for continuous work) and IHostedService (for startup/shutdown hooks).
• Lifecycle Management: Learn how to correctly manage the startup and shutdown sequences of hosted services.
• Graceful Shutdown: Implement strategies to ensure background tasks complete cleanly when the application stops.
• Use Case: You need to process a queue of incoming messages continuously in your ASP.NET Core application without blocking web requests. This Skill shows you how to set up a BackgroundService to handle this reliably.

Quick Start

Implement a background worker using the BackgroundService pattern to process orders from a queue.