Send Alerts to web clients?

[Luis Esteban Valencia]

Is there a way to send timed alerts to ALL web clients conencted to the IIS
server (on a server level)?

IF NOT

Is there a way to send timed alerts to ALL web clients using a certain .Net
web application?
IF NOT

Is there a way to send timed alerts to ALL web clients using a certain .Net
web page?

[Jeff]

>> Is there a way to send timed alerts to ALL web clients using a
certain .Net

web page?

Hey Luis, did you get a chance to try out our product?

You could easily do the third option by combining the techniques
demonstrated here:
http://www.dart.com/livetutorial/dis...ng%20LiveSound
[demonstrates polling the server with a timer]

with the techniques demonstrated here:
http://www.dart.com/livetutorial/dis...LiveMessageBox
[demonstrates showing an alert via a server-side method]

[Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]]

The short answer is no.
Web pages are request-based.
The web browser must initiate all requests, the server simply cannot contact
a web client.

To get around this you must have more advanced code running on the client,
such as a windows forms application that can handle real networking code.
Remoting is generally the best solution.

--
I hope this helps,
Steve C. Orr, MCSD, MVP
http://SteveOrr.net

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Is there a way to send timed alerts to ALL web clients conencted to the
IIS
server (on a server level)?

IF NOT

Is there a way to send timed alerts to ALL web clients using a certain
.Net
web application?
IF NOT

Is there a way to send timed alerts to ALL web clients using a certain
.Net
web page?