How could I implement a Comet architecture in a ASP.Net MVC?
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Method 1
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There are great comments about the question in this thread.
And based in the fact you can use handlers in a MVC app:
will do the work : )
Method 2
As long as you need to implement server push support onto your ASP.NET MVC application you will need some extra functionalities like detection of client status etc. I suggest you to try PokeIn comet ajax library which you can find sample project here
Method 3
I doubt you will find something out of the box for MVC but you can always implement the client side code that handles timeouts and reconnects to an AJAX-enabled WCF service that polls for whatever event you want to be notified for. Be sure to set the timeout of the service to a higher value.
Edit 24.11.2013
Since the original question was posted SignalR was released which is a library to do just that.
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