Desktop Notifications, aka Internal Alert System
- by Refracted Paladin
It has become apparent that where I work needs, internally, a "notification system". The issue being that we are very spread out throughout multiple buildings and the bulk of the work force regularly keeps there email closed for hours at a time.
I need to create a simple way to be able to push out a message and have it "pop up" on everyones computer(or a single computer).
My first thought was to write a windows service that calls a winform/wpf app that resides on each computer that simply pops up with the message. Not sure how viable an idea that is but this is just brain-storming.
A different route, I thought, could be an app that resides in the systray on each computer that polls a db table and using the Query Notifications could pop up a message each time a new row is added. Then simply create an insanely basic app for writing a row to that table.
So, what I am asking is if any one else has walked this path. If so, how?
What things did you take into
consideration?
Are either of my ideas valid starting
points or are "egg and my face in
perfect alignment"?
Is there a different way that is even
simpler?
Thanks
