Programmatically Schedule one-time execution of Azure function

Question

I have looked through documentation for WebJobs, Functions and Logic Apps in Azure but I cannot find a way to schedule a one-time execution of a process through code. My use

Answer 1

You could use Azure Queue trigger with deferred visibility. This will keep the message invisible for a specified timeout. This conveniently acts as a timer.

CloudQueue queueOutput; // same queue as trigger listens on 
var strjson = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(message); // message is your payload
var cloudMsg = new CloudQueueMessage(strjson);

var delay = TimeSpan.FromHours(1); 
queueOutput.AddMessage(cloudMsg, initialVisibilityDelay: delay);

See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.azure.storage.queue.cloudqueue.addmessage?view=azure-dotnet for more details on this overload of AddMessage.