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Newsletter windows application or windows service
Nov 4 2016 11:41 AM
Hello all,
I want to make a newsletter software that runs on all the PCs once there is a news or update it will popup a form containing the updates
what i've acheived till now is
two form one is the main form that invoke the popup form, the sequence of my code is :
1- main from load the popup form and then hide it
2- press button to start the program and it will hide the main
3- at event of button click while(1) and check every minute if the SQL table has news inside it or not
4- if there is a news it will show the popup form for 1 minute after that it hide it
5- the continue running and repeats
what I am asking for is what is the knowledge that I need in order to reliable software
and instead of while(1) how to trigger the software to popup the form when there is anything in the SQL table ? and finally is there any similar open source software that do what I need or something alike?
here is my code:
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
ClassMasterData cMaster = new ClassMasterData();
DataTable dtNewFeed;
Form_Popup news;
int always = 1;
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
news = new Form_Popup();
news.Show();
news.Hide();
}
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
TimeSpan interval = new TimeSpan(0, 1, 0);
this.Visible = false;
while (always == 1)
{
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1 * 60 * 1000);
dtNewFeed = cMaster.Select_DailyNews();
if (dtNewFeed.Rows.Count != 0)
{
news.Reformat(int.Parse(dtNewFeed.Rows[0]["nType"].ToString()), dtNewFeed.Rows[0]["strMessage"].ToString(), null);
news.Show();
news.Refresh();
//NativeMethods.BlockInput(interval);
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1 * 60 * 1000);
news.Hide();
news.Refresh();
}
}
}
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