How to report progress in a timer job

In SharePoint we have a provision to report the progress of a timer job. I was wondering how do various SharePoint inbuilt timer jobs’s report the status of the timer job.

Thankfully to the API method provided SPJobDefinition.UpdateProgress method which accepts integer as a parameter.

You can use this method to call in SPJobDefinition.Execute method or any other method that is called in the Execute method directly or indirectly.

Example:

 public  override  void  Execute(Guid  contentDbId){
//some code
this.UpdateProgress(<number lies between 0 to 100>);

}

I find this method new to my knowledge, so I shared. Hope this helps.

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