Equivalent of Ihostedservice in asp.net framework for background tasks

Question

I have a restful micro service (web api) in .net 4.6.2 and I want to call a fire and forget function each time after certain endpoints are called to do some database cleanup wor

Answer 1

One of the safest ways to proceed would be to use a Thread. You can fire the thread ans let it run.

If you need the thread to get killed in case the App closed, You can add the isBackground parameter.
Otherwise, the thread should continue to run until its work is finished

Thread backgroundThread = new Thread(() => 
{
    Console.WriteLine("I'll run until the app Stops or I finish working");
    LongRunningJob();
}, IsBackground = true);

Thread foregroundThread = new Thread(() => 
{
    Console.WriteLine("I'll stop when I'm finished");
    LongRunningJob();
}
backgroundThread.Start();
foregroundThread.Start()