It’s funny how the same topics keep coming up over and over again. The other day I wrote about batch processing in Asp.net and today a college forwards me an article about “The Dangers of Implementing Recurring Background Tasks in Asp.Net” from Phil Haack.

Warning: Phil, I am going to give you some grief, but you are awesome. How can you not be with Asp.Net MVC.

Phil is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft and Mr. Asp.Net MVC. A good guy, but I find it funny when you comment on your blog like this:

I run Microsoft OS’s with Microsoft IIS and program websites with Microsoft languages and frameworks but can’t do reoccurring tasks without punting out of the web project and into Windows Services or console programs. Don’t get me wrong Phil, I know you are busy but what the heck! Where is the worker role from Azure?

I suspect that Microsoft can figure out how to give it’s most popular development server (IIS) the ability to do batch processing. How can IIS in its 7th version not have the same features as Azure beta or AppEngine from Google? Can you say Cron.yaml?