Rami Vemula

In this part of the tutorial, we first create a Windows Service Project, then implement a Service called – ‘BirthdayEmailService’. Then we add a reference to our previously created Class Library – ‘EmailComponent’. We code BirthdayEmailService using Timer to perform the email sending task for every hour. Then we incorporate the Installer classes for the purpose of installation. Finally a Setup and Deployment Project is created for the Service. Finally the complete Solution is build and the exe file is generated which is ready enough to get installed.

In this tutorial, we learn how to send automated birthday wish emails to the customers of our product. We first design our database with basic details of every customer, and of course with a Email address field. Then we create a class library to hold the classes of database interactivity and to send email asynchronously. We use ADO.Net (for this tutorial I am skipping Entity Framework implementation, which usually I prefer to interact with Database. For generating EF modules of database, kindly watch this tutorial – Click Here) with a stored procedure for database interaction (primarily to fetch email ids of customers to whom we got to send birthday wishes). Then finally we use a Windows Service (which obviously run background in the server)through which the previously created class library is accessed and async emails are send.