Wednesday, July 7, 2021

ShixxNote network enabled sticky notes program and LAN messenger

ShixxNote is multithread client/server network tool that lets you display notes on your desktop and send them through your local network (LAN) to others. ShixxNote is a network-enabled sticky notes program. Every computer where ShixxNote is installed and running has network listener for new messages which when found are presented to the user like colorful desktop sticky notes via which a reply can be sent instantly.

Problem started when Microsoft disabled Windows Messaging service and program thread which is created just for scanning your local network now can't find any computer. Before you would get network neighborhood list of computers and just by clicking on it you were able to add any computer in note recipient list. After adding recipients you just needed to click on button "Send note". Instantly all computers in recipient list would create note on desktop screen, exactly the same note as it was on sender computer. Now I need to rewrite code for scanning network. My function for enumeration was created and wrote before 15 years in C++ and it worked well on Windows 10 till last year. Now it works on Windows XP, Seven, 8 but not any more on Windows 10.

Check out Microsoft Store or visit program homepage www.shixxnote.com if you want to download 30-days trial version.

Regards to all,

Ozren Sirola



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