Making Quartz .NET work with a separate configuration file

gistfile1.txt

Stuff this into your start method

// Configure the Scheduler
ISchedulerFactory schedFact = new StdSchedulerFactory();

// get a scheduler
IScheduler sched = schedFact.GetScheduler();
sched.Start();

Add to app config

  <quartz>
    <add key="quartz.scheduler.instanceName" value="JobScheduler" />

    <add key="quartz.threadPool.type" value="Quartz.Simpl.SimpleThreadPool, Quartz" />
    <add key="quartz.threadPool.threadCount" value="10" />
    <add key="quartz.threadPool.threadPriority" value="Normal" />

    <add key="quartz.jobStore.misfireThreshold" value="60000" />
    <add key="quartz.jobStore.type" value="Quartz.Simpl.RAMJobStore, Quartz" />

    <add key="quartz.plugin.xml.type" value="Quartz.Plugin.Xml.JobInitializationPlugin, Quartz" />
    <add key="quartz.plugin.xml.fileNames" value="jobs.config" />
  </quartz>

Make a jobs.config! Make sure it copies to the output folder

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<quartz xmlns="http://quartznet.sourceforge.net/JobSchedulingData" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="1.0" overwrite-existing-jobs="true">
  <job>
    <job-detail>
      <name></name>
      <group></group>
      <description></description>
      <job-type></job-type>
      <volatile>false</volatile>
      <durable>true</durable>
      <recover>false</recover>
      <job-data-map>
        <entry>
          <key></key>
          <value></value>
        </entry>
      </job-data-map>
    </job-detail>

    <trigger>
      <cron>
        <name></name>
        <job-name></job-name>
        <job-group></job-group>
        <cron-expression>*/10 * * * * ? *</cron-expression>
      </cron>
    </trigger>
  </job>
</quartz>