Is this possible?? Push technique??

[M@rtyn12345]

Hello,

I'm working on a program that can download information messages from the Internet and display them to the user (like weather information or traffic jams).

I think it's cool to send messages to the users of this program which appears like a normal weather or traffic message.
Maybe even from an instant messaging application (such as MSN/ICQ).

Does anyone know if this is possible and how to do this?

Thank you very much.

[khalik_ash]

u can do it.. but from where can u get the info and will u be having a use base to send....

[M@rtyn12345]

It is for a website that gets traffic information from its users and stores them in a database. The program will get the information from that database.

But what do I need to send a message from MSN for instance to almost thousands of users??

[Edneeis]

In order to push out to a bunch of different users they would have to have a small client application that is always running and ready to receive the messages.

For MSN folks there is a .NET Alerts service but I don't know much about it.

http://www.microsoft.com/net/service.../developer.asp

[M@rtyn12345]

OK, thanks.

What if, lets say, 5000 users have this program where they can only receive messages about weather, traffic, etc.

Now I would like to send a message to all these 5000 users (via MSN for instance) to inform them about new updates or something.

How can I do this??

Besides, the program does not have to be always running. The moment the program starts it justs downloads and displays all messages that were sent to it.
Maybe I could do this by adding a response check, that if the program doesn't react when a message is sent, the message is automatically saved on the server.

Please help.

[M@rtyn12345]

Can anyone please help me? I still not solved the problem.

Let it be clear that the program is not meant to send messages to MSN users with .NET Alerts or something, but it has to receive messages from MSN user(s).

The question is: How can I do this? Which classes do I need? Do I have to install some SDK's?

If you know the answers you would help me a lot!! Thanx in advance.