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Louis Bernard
Louis Bernard

Reputation: 279

Creating a scheduled task on Windows using C?

I want to create a scheduled task on Windows using C. I reseached this topic and found the task scheduler interfaces provided by Microsoft. I was able to successfully create scheduled tasks using C++. However, due to limitations I can only use C for this and it seems that the interfaces are only provided for C++. I tried researching this but couldn't find any results. Is it possible to create scheduled tasks in Windows using C?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1042

Answers (1)

SoronelHaetir
SoronelHaetir

Reputation: 15164

It is possible to do COM in C but it is far uglier than with C++.

For example, if you look in mstask.h you will find macros like ITask_CreateTrigger following the definition of ITask. You can use those macros instead of C++ style member calls. With headers created from IDL it is generally a fairly mechanical task to transform C++ style COM code to C. If the interface is not generated from IDL then the C macros may well not be present but that is not an issue for the task scheduler API.

Upvotes: 3

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