Send/Listen Commands on LAN

[B-Dog]

Can someone point me in the right direction or tell me if it is possible to
do this? I'm new to VB but have a buddy that is really good but we can't
really find anything on doing this. We have built a small application that
we are running on the workstations at the office and we need to do global
updates to the local databases. We are using 98/2000 machines. We would
like to have app listening to certain port or something and be able to send
out a global update command to tell the app to perform a certain operations.
Is this possible. Please help. Thanks

[B-Dog]

Would this work on 98 machines? Can you point me to any website with
sample/help? Thanks!

"David Williams" <Da***********@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C1**********************************@microsof t.com...

You could do this via a Remoting call to a Windows Service that did the updates.
HTH
--
David Williams, VB.NET MVP
"B-Dog" wrote:

Can someone point me in the right direction or tell me if it is possible to do this? I'm new to VB but have a buddy that is really good but we can't really find anything on doing this. We have built a small application that we are running on the workstations at the office and we need to do global updates to the local databases. We are using 98/2000 machines. We would like to have app listening to certain port or something and be able to send out a global update command to tell the app to perform a certain operations. Is this possible. Please help. Thanks

[David Williams , VB.NET MVP]

You can use remoting to talk FROM the 98 machine, no problem. I am not
sure that you can host a remoting session on one though - do not have
one to test on. I know that it would have to be a running program, not
a Windows Service however, as 98 does not support services. It could be
a background application (i.e. a console app) however that was started
from the Autoexec.BAT (whew, I have not thought about THAT in a while!)

HTH

David

"B-Dog" <bd***@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Oz**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl:

Would this work on 98 machines? Can you point me to any website with
sample/help? Thanks!

"David Williams" <Da***********@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
news:C1**********************************@microsof t.com...

You could do this via a Remoting call to a Windows Service that did
the

updates.

HTH
--
David Williams, VB.NET MVP
"B-Dog" wrote:

Can someone point me in the right direction or tell me if it is
possible to do this? I'm new to VB but have a buddy that is really good but we can't really find anything on doing this. We have built a small
application that we are running on the workstations at the office and we need to do global updates to the local databases. We are using 98/2000 machines. We would like to have app listening to certain port or something and be able
to send out a global update command to tell the app to perform a certain operations. Is this possible. Please help. Thanks

[Barclay Berger]

Hey thanks for the help, I think we found exactly what we needed. Got us
pointed in the right direction. Thanks

<David Williams>; "VB.NET MVP" <da********************@earthlink.net> wrote
in message news:Oy**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

You can use remoting to talk FROM the 98 machine, no problem. I am not
sure that you can host a remoting session on one though - do not have
one to test on. I know that it would have to be a running program, not
a Windows Service however, as 98 does not support services. It could be
a background application (i.e. a console app) however that was started
from the Autoexec.BAT (whew, I have not thought about THAT in a while!)

HTH

David

"B-Dog" <bd***@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Oz**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl:

Would this work on 98 machines? Can you point me to any website with
sample/help? Thanks!

"David Williams" <Da***********@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
news:C1**********************************@microsof t.com...

You could do this via a Remoting call to a Windows Service that did
the

updates.

HTH
--
David Williams, VB.NET MVP
"B-Dog" wrote:

> Can someone point me in the right direction or tell me if it is
> possible

to

> do this? I'm new to VB but have a buddy that is really good but we

can't

> really find anything on doing this. We have built a small
> application

that

> we are running on the workstations at the office and we need to do

global

> updates to the local databases. We are using 98/2000 machines. We

would

> like to have app listening to certain port or something and be able
> to

send

> out a global update command to tell the app to perform a certain

operations.

> Is this possible. Please help. Thanks
>
>
>