How to start?

[Edwin Martinez]

I have an assigment and I need to create an application that its no more
than an alert system like the one used by "MSN News Alerts" popup style
running in the taskbar.

I normaly use VB 6.0 so this one will be my first project in VB.Net and I am
a littler confused on how to start... what tyoe of proyect if it is a Web
Service or a Web Application. As I have in mind the application will run as
a service, so each 10 minutes, it will connect to a server and read a XML
file. This file will be built by an ASP page on the server, or I dont know
its better to read directly from the DB. Well any one that can help me with
a breafing on how to make this the right and easy way thanks.

Edwin
ed***@planetplaza.com

[Chris]

Edwin Martinez wrote:

I have an assigment and I need to create an application that its no more
than an alert system like the one used by "MSN News Alerts" popup style
running in the taskbar.

I normaly use VB 6.0 so this one will be my first project in VB.Net and I am
a littler confused on how to start... what tyoe of proyect if it is a Web
Service or a Web Application. As I have in mind the application will run as
a service, so each 10 minutes, it will connect to a server and read a XML
file. This file will be built by an ASP page on the server, or I dont know
its better to read directly from the DB. Well any one that can help me with
a breafing on how to make this the right and easy way thanks.

Edwin
ed***@planetplaza.com

You need to do this as a windows application. If you do a windows
service you will not get the user interface that you want. Other than
that, it's pretty much the same concepts as VB6. If you are making the
server, I'd look into making a web service on the server. If that isn't
allowed, then the easiest is to read the DB directly. Otherwise you are
going to be posting to the web server or ftping.

chris

[Tibby]

Edwin Martinez wrote:

I have an assigment and I need to create an application that its no
more than an alert system like the one used by "MSN News Alerts"
popup style running in the taskbar.

I normaly use VB 6.0 so this one will be my first project in VB.Net
and I am a littler confused on how to start... what tyoe of proyect
if it is a Web Service or a Web Application. As I have in mind the
application will run as a service, so each 10 minutes, it will
connect to a server and read a XML file. This file will be built by
an ASP page on the server, or I dont know its better to read directly
from the DB. Well any one that can help me with a breafing on how to
make this the right and easy way thanks.

Edwin
ed***@planetplaza.com

Use a notify icon and make it a Windows Service. Really wanna get
fancy? Try subclassing the notify icon to make it snappy.

HTH,
Tibby