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What is the best way to implement a push notification service using RESTful WCF services with Silverlight 4 clients?
We are currently using a polling technique to call the REST service for updates. I’d prefer to have the server push, or broadcast, the notifications.
For the sake of closure, I thought I’d share what we ended up doing.
We did create a push notification server running as a Windows Service using standard Sockets communication. We maintain a list of connected clients and push notifications out as needed.
It’s not RESTful, but since the client isn’t making requests, it didn’t make much sense to implement in a RESTful manner.