Can we do this in Visual Basic?

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I need to give members  of a website a "notifier" utility to install on their computers.  It would check the site every 30 minutes, if there is a job offer for the user in question, a popup message appears on the screen.  If not, nothing is displayed.

 

Can we do the following tasks in Visual Basic:-

 

1 - Create an icon that remains on Windows taskbar (near the clock on the right, etc)

 

2 -  retrieve a web page as a string  +   checks for a certain word in the string, e.g. 'YES' or 'NO'

 

3 - if 'YES',  a popup message appears on the screen,  if 'NO', nothing happens, nothing happens but the icon remains on the taskbar

 

4 -  page retrieval is repeated periodically, say every 30 minutes

 

5 - the script  is made to start when Windows run (i.e. at start up)

I would appreciate a reply to the above 5. 

 

And if Visual Basic CAN do it, would I need :-

- Visual Basic 6  OR

- Visual Studio Express

- Visual Studio (the full package).

 

Thank you in advance.

 

Hi,

 

If you are just concerned about sending the icon to taskbar, sending an HTTP request, getting the response and displaying yes/no on the basis of the HTML page you recieved, then my answer is yes you can do it. You can do it in VB 6.0 and also in vb.net. I am 100% sure about VB6 but need to check for VB.NET but it should be doable in VB.NET too I suppose. This is a very simple and doable task. So my answer is yes, you can do that because I have tried this.

 

 

regards,