Sending messages to the client application from the server application
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Dear friends, From my server application I want to send messages to all the clients connected to the SQL database. How can I achieve this? The scenario is like this... At the day end, on the server the administrator of my system runs the day end option. This option is suppose to transfer the records of a particular day to respective files and so on. Before running the day end option, all the clients has to log out. Now the server is in a server room and clients can be any where in the office. So it’s not possible for the administrator to tell everyone individually to close the system. So I want to develop an option, which tells the administrator that who all are using the system, and the administrator can send them a message to close the system. I am able to display the name of the users logged into the system at a current time but I am not able to send the message. I know that I can use windows sockets for that purpose but can't I use windows messaging service for this?? Operating System: Windows 98/2000/XP/2003 Language: Visual Basic Backend: SQL 2000 Regards, Chintan Chintan