.Net and Comet?
by Dylan SchiemannFebruary 19th, 2008
.Net and Comet is not a pair I think about very often, but two new .Net-based Comet server implementations were recently brought to my attention.
Radialware is working on a Comet server, with initial chat, stock, and voting demos. It’s definitely a pre-beta release at this point, but it has potential.
There’s another .Net-based Comet implementation, PushAsp.Net, that seems to be focusing more on Silverlight currently with an auction demo. Their JavaScript-based demo is, of course, chat, the Hello World of Comet demos.
Neither of these projects appear to be particlarly mature or complete yet, but I still find it interesting to see that there is work being done to develop Comet server implementations in almost every viable language.
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February 19th, 2008 at 4:03 am
Also, Orbited 0.3 currently has a .Net client that has successfully been used to develop Comet applications.
February 19th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Yes, it’s worth noting that many Comet projects have clients written in languages besides JavaScript, including repubsub and Lightstreamer, which has a .Net-based Stock List Demo.
March 11th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Thanks for the plug Dylan!
As you noted, our server is written in .Net. Our definition of a client is probably identical to everyone else’s: a TCP connection. But our clients are further defined as either a publisher or as a susbcriber. A publisher connects to our server and sends data to susbcribers by passing the server specially formed XML messages. These publishers can be written in ANY language. The susbcribers need only be a web browser that supports the usual assortment of features (IFRAMES, Javascript, etc).
We’ve got an SSL version coming soon and our list of samples is growing so check us out!
May 19th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
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