Customizing ASP.NET Core 6.0 - Second Edition

Chapter 7: Using IHostedService and BackgroundService

This seventh chapter isn't really about customization; it's more about a feature you can use to create background services to run tasks asynchronously inside your application. I use this feature to regularly fetch data from a remote service in a small ASP.NET Core application.

We'll examine the following topics:

• Introducing IHostedService
• Introducing BackgroundService
• Implementing the new Worker Service projects

The topics of this chapter refer to the Host layer of the ASP.NET Core architecture:

Figure 7.1 – ASP.NET Core architecture

Technical requirements

To follow the descriptions ...