Scheduling Jobs Programmatically in Quartz.Net 2.0

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Scheduling jobs programmatically in Quartz.Net 2.0 is very similar to scheduling a job in Quartz.Net 1.0. The overall process is the same, but the scheduler API has changed for version 2.0, so the code used will be significantly different.
In this post we will only highlight the differences between the two versions, so if you’re not familiar with the process, then read this post first. Then come back to this post to understand what has changed in version 2.0.

What Has Changed

Only a couple of things have changed in Quartz.Net 2.0 when it comes to scheduling a job programmatically: the way you build jobs and triggers.
The new Quartz.Net scheduler API uses more interfaces now. It also provides builder objects to create triggers (ITrigger now) and job details (IJobDetail now). I think the simplest way to highlight the differences is to take the code from my original post and convert it to the new API. Here’s the updated code:

public void ScheduleOneTimeJob(Type jobType, JobDataMap dataMap)
{
  string name = DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyyMMddHHmmss"));
  string group = "OneTimeJobs";
  // create job
  IJobDetail jobDetail = JobBuilder
    .Create()
    .OfType(jobType)
    .WithIdentity(new JobKey(name, group))
    .UsingJobData(dataMap)
    .Build();

  // create trigger
  ITrigger trigger = TriggerBuilder
    .Create()
    .ForJob(jobDetail)
    .WithIdentity(new TriggerKey(name, group));
    .WithSchedule(SimpleScheduleBuilder.Create())
    .StartNow()
    .Build();
  // get reference to scheduler (remote or local) and schedule job
  GetScheduler().ScheduleJob(jobDetail, trigger);
}

As you can see, the changes to the code are pretty significant, but the overall process remains the same. I’d like to provide you with some links to documentation or some other examples, but I’m unaware of any at this point, as Quartz.Net 2.0 has not yet been released.