Given a small LAN setup consisting of 6 PC’s and a server I would like to create a custom windows form application that can run on each PC per user log in. End goal is for each user to have their “dashboard” (windows form application) displayed and real-time updates displayed. By real-time updates I want to display in the dashboard that a PDF has been moved to a specific folder. There are other goals and reasoning to create this form app to provide some simple customization, but planning on going as basic as possible in the beginning.
Can I accomplish this task by creating a windows form application, inputting the data into a database stored on the server in a shared directory?
Can you provide a general basic outline? Do you have any links that might be helpful? Any code snippets or sample projects would be greatly appreciated as well.
Below is a sample (simplified) of user dashboard, it would run on each PC (qty 6).
Thanks!!!