Can ASP script on website "start" app on my computer

[OrthoDocSoft]

Folks,

My client application sends data to ASP scripts on my website, which acts on this data, stores it in a DB, and "replies" to my client app. I am quite comfortable with this. My question is:

Can an ASP script on my website "call/activate/create an event in" my client app (which is running, but not "looking" for anything) when it (the script) is ready to send the app some information? I am trying to keep from having the app always looking at the website for new data to act on.

Thanks,

Ortho

"you cain't fix 'stupid'...

 

[dilettante]

You can use an MSMQ local machine queue for this. The ASP page can insert a message containing almost anything up to 4MB in size. You can even pass an object in the message body assuming there is a typelib registered for it (a copy of the object gets stored and retrieved, not a reference). ADO Recordsets or Streams, Scripting.Dictionaries, lots of possibilities.

Your application can monitor the queue, respond to a queue insertion event, or be set up via a trigger on the queue so it only gets run when there are messages to process.

 

[OrthoDocSoft]

dilettante, thank you for this tip. I am going to check into this in time and thank you appropriately later (assuming I don't have more questions about how to make what you suggested work).

Ortho

"you cain't fix 'stupid'...