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ASP.NET Core – Control the graceful shutdown time for background services

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ASP.NET Core gives you a chance to gracefully shutdown your background services (such as cleaning up and/or finishing in-progress work). By default, you’re given a grand total of 5 seconds to shutdown all background services. If you need more time than this, there are a few ways to control the graceful shutdown time, which I’ll … Read more

How to use BackgroundService in ASP.NET Core

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You can use a hosted BackgroundService in ASP.NET Core for two purposes: In this article, I’ll show how to create and register a hosted BackgroundService. In this example, it periodically pings a URL and logs the results. 1 – Subclass BackgroundService The first step is to subclass BackgroundService: In this example, we’ll create a background … Read more

How to set a timeout for TcpClient.ConnectAsync()

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TcpClient has no direct way to set the connection timeout. It doesn’t have any parameters that allow you to control it, and SendTimeout / ReceiveTimeout don’t apply to the initial connection. The way I control the connection timeout is by awaiting a Task.WhenAny() with TcpClient.ConnectAsync() and Task.Delay(). Task.WhenAny() returns when any of the tasks complete. … Read more