Processing Jobs in a Console Application¶

To start using Hangfire in a console application, you’ll need to install Hangfire packages to your console application first. So, use your Package Manager Console window to install it:

PM> Install-Package Hangfire.Core

Then, install the needed package for your job storage. For example, you need to execute the following command to use SQL Server:

PM> Install-Package Hangfire.SqlServer

Hangfire.Core package is enough

Please don’t install the Hangfire package for console applications as it is a quick-start package only and contain dependencies you may not need (for example, Microsoft.Owin.Host.SystemWeb).

After installing packages, all you need is to create a new Hangfire Server instance and start it as written in the previous chapter. However, there are some details here:

Since the Start method is non-blocking, we insert a Console.ReadKey call to prevent instant shutdown of an application.
The call to Stop method is implicit – it is made through the using statement.

using System;
using Hangfire;
using Hangfire.SqlServer;

namespace ConsoleApplication2
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            GlobalConfiguration.Configuration.UseSqlServerStorage("connection_string");

            using (var server = new BackgroundJobServer())
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Hangfire Server started. Press any key to exit...");
                Console.ReadKey();
            }
        }
    }
}

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