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7 March 2005, 15:46 System Tray Notifier

I am looking to create a tiny system tray utility for Windows that regularly checks a web service for updates. The app will need to pass the user’s login information to the web service and to display a notification of relevant updates/news that were returned by the web service.

Here’s what I need:
notifier

Does anyone know how to go about doing this? I don’t really care if this will be written in VB/C#/C++/.NET.

I already have it working for Mac users as a Dashboard item for OS-X Tiger and I would really like to have a Windows version as well.

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gravatar David Collantes / Mar 18, 10:28 PM Any decent RSS reader will allow you to get notified when new feeds exists. Simply add the comment feed to your RSS reader and done deal (WordPress allows you to agregate Posts and Comments are news feeds).

How is Blogish coming along? ;-) #
gravatar Steve Romej / Mar 25, 12:08 AM I’ve created similar applications. You could do what David says and just have the service publish a RSS feed and then check that. I’ve also had experience creating a ASP.NET web service in C# using Mono that can be called by a SOAP client, also written in C#.

The project Advocate at http://blursoft.com does this sort of thing, though I never got around to documenting it well. #
gravatar Ran / Mar 25, 09:09 AM Thanks David and Steve. Advocate seems a good start for me to work with, though I wonder if the message window I “photoshoped” here is a built-in function of windows or the .NET framework…

David. I know BLOGish takes me a LONG LONG time, but I had very little time for my self in the last couple of months. I will do my best to have a version out as soon as I can. Sorry… #
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gravatar Frank / Jun 26, 01:33 AM

Hi Ran, David and Steve
I need a similar application, whereby individual users of our online solution are alerted via a system tray popup when a new referral is received. They will then log on to our application and action the referral. Our application is ASP.NET in VB

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