>Hi everybody,
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>Having a specifications like this:
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>I need an application to sit on the Desktop (running 24/7). This is basically an alarm type application that would trigger the alarm if no new records have been posted to an Access database for ___ minutes. The TextBox on the Desktp will show the DateTime of last record posted. I'd like to have the capability to 'tune' the time intervals: 1) Query Database Interval 2) Time without any new records Interval 3) Path\DatabaseFileName (on Network Server)
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>would it make sense to write this in .NET or VFP? If the former, can you give some pointers as how would you approach it?
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>If the later, I would probably utilize cppTimer class and I think I saw alerts implementation on Anatoliy's website.
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>Thanks in advance.

Have you ever actually programmed anything by yourself?