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2026-05-31 csharp dotnet dotnet-11

How to run fire-and-forget work safely in ASP.NET Core with BackgroundService

Calling Task.Run from a controller loses work on shutdown, swallows exceptions, and captures disposed scoped services. The safe pattern is a bounded Channel queue drained by a BackgroundService that opens a fresh scope per work item and drains in-flight work on StopAsync.

2026-05-31 csharp dotnet dotnet-11

How to use scoped services inside a BackgroundService in ASP.NET Core 11

A BackgroundService is a singleton, so it cannot inject a scoped service like a DbContext directly. Take IServiceScopeFactory, open one scope per unit of work with CreateAsyncScope, resolve inside it, and dispose it when the work is done.