dotnet-worker-services

What problem does it solve?

This Skill provides the patterns and best practices for building reliable, long-running background services and hosted services in .NET, ensuring proper lifecycle management, graceful shutdown, and efficient resource utilization.

Core Features & Use Cases

• BackgroundService Implementation: Learn to implement BackgroundService for scheduled or continuous tasks.
• Graceful Shutdown: Ensure your services shut down cleanly without data loss.
• Dependency Management: Handle scoped dependencies correctly within hosted services.
• Observability: Integrate health checks for monitoring and reliability.
• Use Case: Develop a worker service that periodically polls a message queue, processes messages, and updates a database, all while ensuring it can be stopped and restarted safely.

Quick Start

Implement a basic .NET worker service using the BackgroundService pattern.