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  2 years ago

  by r0bbyw

  Rob Wilson

  , United Kingdom

  Joined 2 years ago

  Hi people, i have been googling this for days and cant seem to find a simple example to send a small text data packet from a server application to a client application. The client is a small application that resides in the taskbar on the workstation PC's and pops up a status message at a predefined interval. I just need the code to send the status message from a server application - sat on a server 2003 box to each client - win xp pro.

  Any ideas anyone
  
  Thanks in advance
  
  Rob
  
  
  
  

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  2 years ago

  by CAMURPHY

  Craig Murphy

  Scotland, UK, United Kingdom

  Joined 4 years ago

  Well, if you're working in .NET, and your Windows 2003 box is running IIS, there's no reason why you shouldn't consider using web services.

  It's rather old now, however I put together some examples and a slide deck a while back XML and Web Services in 60 minutes, you can download it here: http://www.craigmurphy.com/sd/

  I'll try and find some time to update it to cover later versions of .NET and the WCF.

  HTH

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  2 years ago

  by r0bbyw

  Rob Wilson

  , United Kingdom

  Joined 2 years ago

  Doh! - never thought of using webservices ! Will give it a try. Thanks for the help

  Regards

   

  Rob

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  2 years ago

  by r0bbyw

  Rob Wilson

  , United Kingdom

  Joined 2 years ago

  Decided to go with webservices - thanks Craig for the reminder! but for anyone else out there looking for an alternate way heres an article that should help
  
  http://www.vbdotnetheaven.com/UploadFile/indikamw/ClientServer04212005031433AM/ClientServer.aspx
  
  

  Cheers

   

  Rob

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