Hands-On RESTful Web Services with ASP.NET Core 3

Understanding the worker services life cycle

.NET Core uses the definition of the BackgroundService class to identify a worker service. The BackgroundService class exposes three methods that represent the life cycle stages of the worker service:

namespace Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting{    public abstract class BackgroundService : IHostedService, IDisposable    {        public virtual Task StartAsync(CancellationToken             cancellationToken);        protected abstract Task ExecuteAsync(CancellationToken             stoppingToken);                public virtual async Task StopAsync(CancellationToken             cancellationToken);    }}

The preceding code is the abstract implementation of the BackgroundService class. The class implements both the IHostedService and IDisposable interfaces, and it exposes ...