Hello,

I was going to create a Windows Service that checked the database every 10 minutes, and through some form of notification, display that a new entry in the table was created. I read that the best way to do this is to use a combination of windows app/windows service. The windows app would then receive some sort of notification that new data was posted.

Does anybody know how I can get the windows app to be notified when the service needs to notify it?

Am I looking at this right?

Brian

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Brian

I know that you can't display any sort of user interface with a windows service. One way of doing what you suggest would be just to create a system tray app (i.e. one with no user interface, just displays in the system tray) that polls the database and displays a notification when it detects something.

Otherwise, you could have the service starting a windows app called something like 'alerter' that shows a user interface. Pass in some command line arguments with what you want to display.

Why have the server call the 'alerter' with a command line parameter? Sounds like both the service and UI is runs on the same machine. Why not just have the UI poll the database every 10 minutes?

Brian, sounds like all you need is a way for 2 apps to communicate. May I suggest using winsocks/UDP. It's pretty easy to implement and works well over the LAN.

tnd,

I'll keep that in mind.

Thanks for the info,

Brian