Network Application - basic question

[CCLeasing]

How do I communicate between different user instances of my windows
forms project?

Im trying to write a program that will run on a network of 15 pcs.

5 of the pc's will run the admin part of the program. and the rest of
the pc's will run the salesman part of the program.

Both forms (the admin form, and the salesman form) at this stage are
VERY simple as i'm just trying to learn the mechanics between basic
form communication accross the network.

The admin form has a couple of labels, a text box and a drop down box.
The text box allows the admin person to enter a leads name, and the
dropdown box allows the admin person to select which salesman they want
to send the lead to. Then when they press OK here is what i need to
happen...

Lets say from the dropdown box they selected the salesman called JOHN.

On Johns PC the app will popup a box alerting him that he has an
incoming lead.

It then pops up the salesman form, with the previously entered customer
name already populated and the time and date info also populated from
the data the admin person entered before they sent him the lead.

Can someone please explain how I achieve the above. I can create the
forms with no problems of course, but my question is asking about the
network side of things and how i actually get the forms to communicate
with each other / and find the right users form to activate.

Many Thanks.

[Dave Sexton]

Hi,

And am getting the error 'the name ChannelServices ' does not exist in
the current context.

You're missing another "using" directive:

using System.Runtime. Remoting.Channe ls;

These directives tell the C# compiler where to look for unqualified tokens
in the code such as, "ChannelService s", which is located in the namespace
I've given above. Without telling the compiler to look in that namespace
the ChannelServices class won't be found.

And also System.Runtime. Remoting.Remoti ngServices does not contain a
defintion for RegisterWellKno wnType.

System.Runtime. Remoting.Remoti ngServices does not contain a member named
RegisterWellKno wnType :)

You probably want the RegisterWellKno wnServiceType method.

If you're not using Visual Studio then you can still discover the members of
any Type in the framework on http://msdn.microsoft.com; just search for the
name of the class in which you're interested and click the link that looks
like, "TheClassNa me Class" or "TheClassNa me Members", for example.

A better approach might be to install Visual C# 2005 Express:

"Visual C# 2005 Express"
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualcsharp/

Intellisense would have helped you solve the last problem far quicker than
newsgroups, I'm sure. The Object Browser or the new smart tag feature could
have easily helped you solve the first problem.

--
Dave Sexton

"CCLeasing" <ga**@ccleasing .co.ukwrote in message
news:11******** *************@j 44g2000cwa.goog legroups.com...

Thanks very much - in future i will post in that group.

I have tried your change and now am getting a different error.

I now have: -

---
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Runtime. Remoting;
using System.Runtime. Remoting.Channe ls.Http;
namespace Server
{
public class ServiceClass : MarshalByRefObj ect {
public void AddMessage (String msg)
{
Console.WriteLi ne (msg);
}
}
public class ServerClass
{
public static void Main ()
{
HttpChannel c = new HttpChannel (1095);
ChannelServices .RegisterChanne l (c);
RemotingService s.RegisterWellK nownType
("Server","Serv er.ServiceClass ","ServiceClass ",WellKnownObje ctMode.Singleto n);
Console.WriteLi ne ("Server ON at 1095");
Console.WriteLi ne ("Press enter to stop the server...");
Console.ReadLin e ();
}
}
}
===========
And am getting the error 'the name ChannelServices ' does not exist in
the current context.

And also System.Runtime. Remoting.Remoti ngServices does not contain a
defintion for RegisterWellKno wnType.
==============

Thanks Again-