Well of course we could use quartz.net, which comes with nice features like concurrency control and load balancing. However it seems a bit bloated to me.
1) Am I wrong about this ? 2) If not how would you implement a cloud compliant scheduler (ie: either deployed on premise or within azure) ? Is Lokad scheduling the best approach ?
Based on the answers to this question ( Recommend a C# Task Scheduling Library ) quartz.net running in a worker role instance is the way to go.