Hangfire in .NET 6 – Background Jobs Made Easy

Why we need Hangfire?

There are couple of possible reason; no access to server (therefore no task schedular), able to manage/view jobs in Web UI.

1. Create Project

Create an ASP.NET MVC application.

2. Install Hangfire

Right click the project and click Manage NuGet package

Install below packages

• Hangfire.Core
• Hangfire.SqlServer
• Hangfire.AspNetCore

3. Create a database

• Login to SQL Mangement Studio
• Create a database

4. Configure Settings

• Add Database Connection string to appsettings.json file

• Program.cs

5. Jobs

6. View Dashboard

domain.com/hangfire

Secure dashboard

program.cs

app.UseHangfireDashboard("/hangfire", new DashboardOptions { DashboardTitle = "My Website", Authorization = new[] { new HangfireCustomBasicAuthenticationFilter{ User = builder.Configuration.GetSection("HangfireSettings:UserName").Value, Pass = builder.Configuration.GetSection("HangfireSettings:Password").Value } } });

appsettings.json

"HangfireSettings": { "UserName": "admin", "Password": "password" }