Alert user using Net send – x++

Sending messages to the users in network using NET SEND in x++

Microsoft Windows offers a simple method to send messages to other
users or computers on the network – simple WinPopup Messages or Net Send
Messages ( in Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows
2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 ).
Prerequisite: Start Messenger service from Start >> Programs >> Administrative tools >> services >> messenger.
Here is the job which will send messages to the users/computers on the network.
static void netSend(Args _args)
{

COM netSendCom;
InteropPermission permission = new InteropPermission(InteropKind::ComInterop);
int output;
//str computerName = ‘giri’;
str computerName = Winapi::getComputerName();
str message = ‘Hello.. I am alerting from Dynamics AX’;

// Receiving end should start messenger service and alerter service from services.msc

permission.assert();
try
{
netSendCom = new COM("WScript.Shell");
output = netSendCom.Run(strFmt("net send %1 %2", computerName, message),0,true);
}
catch (Exception::Error)
{
CodeAccessPermission::revertAssert();
throw Exception::Error;
}

if (output != 0)
{
warning(strfmt(‘Net send Failed’, computerName));
warning(‘Check messenger service – Started’);
}

CodeAccessPermission::revertAssert();

}
Here is the net send message popup