I want to create an application which will be multiple client server application. All the computers are connected via the LAN. I want to generate a push notification on the admin computer when a client makes a query request. The notification should be real-time without loading the dashboard.
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If you are up for rolling your own, you could potentially look into RabbitMQ. Its a free open source robust messaging system that would allow you to publish message to an exchange from the admin computer. Then the clients would subscribe to get the notifications/messages.
They have good getting started tutorials over on the main website. In particular, you might want to look at the Publish/Subscribe tutorial
You can use nuget to pick up the offical RabbitMQ C# library. Although, once you have your exchange & queues setup inside RabbitMQ you can even send the messages to the queue from anywhere using HTTP POST messages if you wish.
However, you would need to setup RabbitMQ on a server somewhere which might be a deal breaker if you havent got access to a server to install rabbitMQ on. It would need to sit there in the background to processing the messages for you.
That my 2 pence worth.
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