worker-services
.NET Worker Services
Trigger On
- building long-running background services or scheduled workers
- adding hosted services to an app or extracting them into a worker process
- reviewing graceful shutdown, cancellation, queue processing, or health behavior
Documentation
- Worker Services in .NET
- Background tasks with hosted services in ASP.NET Core
- Create Windows Service using BackgroundService
- App health checks in .NET
- Health checks in ASP.NET Core
References
- patterns.md - BackgroundService patterns, graceful shutdown, and health check implementations
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