A while ago I was having a problem. My email system on the server was buggered and I wasn’t receiving any emails about new bugs being created. To make things worse, I had just set up the server so that all of my support and sales email went into the FogBugz system via mailboxes.  Since my mail server was broken, I had to go into FogBugz and check the 12 or so projects every few minutes. Not that this took too long, but it was a pain.

So I decided to write a FogBugz notifier, just like Outlook does for new mail. It sits in the system tray and notifies me when a new case is lodged or a new update is made to a case.

You can download the installer for this free application from my web site. This is my free page, full of programs over the years that I have developed and released for free.

Now there is currently no documentation but installation is simple and the first time you run it the configuration screen will pop up.

For connection string information, you can use http://connectionstrings.com

Here is a sample SQL Server connection string, using Integrated Windows Authentication:

Integrated Security=SSPI;Persist Security Info=False;Password=Password;User ID=UserName;Initial Catalog=fogbugz;Data Source=DBServerName

As you can see the other options are straight forward. You do need .NET framework 2.0 to use this application and that can be downloaded from Microsoft.

I hope you like it and find it useful; I do. If anyone has any issues with it or suggestions you can lodge a new case in my bug tracking system just remember to select the project FogBugz Notifier.