Execute method in global.asax every few minutes

Question

What is the most effective way to execute a method in the Global.asax file every x number of minutes? Is there a way to have the ASP.NET server run a background thread that

Answer 1

Put a System.Timers.Timer object in Application_Start () in Global.asax.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.timers.timer.aspx