Client Side: Systray Program to check SQL entries ?

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Client Side: Systray Program to check SQL entries ?

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Hi,
I'm trying to figure out what might be the easiest language to write a client side program, essentially to sit in the systray running a MS SQL Query every five minutes, if there's a new entry into the db, then bring up a "pop-up" message (client side) to say there was a new entry in the db.

Seems simple enough, just wondering what language might be the easiest to write this in? As I'm not a guru in many client side langauges, have only dabbled some in VB and C, I know JS pretty well, but I'm not sure if I could do something like that with J...

Please let me know if you have an idea on this...

Thanks,
Henry
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well, it'd have to be a compiled language of some form or another, overall, to do what you want, so VB, C, C#, it doesn't matter. SQL Server will respond to ODBC and like COM requests, so the language you use is fairly independant.
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feyd wrote:well, it'd have to be a compiled language of some form or another, overall, to do what you want, so VB, C, C#, it doesn't matter. SQL Server will respond to ODBC and like COM requests, so the language you use is fairly independant.
I was considering writing it in VB, thought that might be the easiest choice, but it's been a good 6 years since I've done anything in VB (aside from some light VBS, no real program coding, just some scripting)... I'm sure getting the program to talk to SQL won't be a problem, but getting it to hide/run in the systray is where I ran into a small set back in VB, just couldn't get the damn thing to minimize to the systray, as stupidly simple as that is... I also wanted a clean "tip-like" pop up, not finding how to do that either, again something stupidly simple I imagine...

Any help on this would be appreciated
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