broadcast message

[Edward]

Hello,

I want to create an application that checks in a database for new records
and send a message over the network to all clients via a broadcast message
(like the MSN messenger). So not a popup window, but a small window near the
right bottom corner.

My question is, how can i send broadcast messages to clients like this, or
maybe have a small service running on the clients that listen to a service
running on the server.

Any help is welcome.

Thanks,

Edward

 

[William Ryan eMVP]

You could start a Net Send but I don't think that's what you want. If you
want to broadcast a UDP message, here's how you do it.
http://www.knowdotnet.com/articles/udpbroadcastmessage.html . you can have
each instance of your app listen for the message and respond accordingly.

HTH,

Bill