Create a JavaScript client that works with a WCF 4.5 WebSockets service to receive continuous, ongoing updates from the service. In my last two columns, I've looked at configuring and writing a WCF ...

WebSockets is a network communication protocol that enables two-way client-server communication. WebSockets are often used for applications that require instantaneous updates, using a persistent ...

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Thanks to its chattiness, the traditional communications protocol for shuttling data around the World Wide Web is not very efficient. Now an HTML5-related standard called WebSocket could cut some of ...

I've got a large project I am working on, which consists of a pretty complex REST api connected to various clients (desktop app, mobile app, etc..). Currently I'm using polling (ick!) to update ...