> > Is this something SignalR might be ideally suited to? > > You can publish and subscribe to messages. > > It runs pretty much anywhere. > > It’s very robust in terms of protocols and connections. >
Interesting idea! I looked at SignarlR a few weeks ago for possible use in an existing ASP.NET app, but there were some tricky dependencies to make it work optimally with WebSockets (and not fall back to polling), so we put it aside as impractical for now and will probably use Ajax polling in the meantime. I mentally put SignalR aside when outside of web apps, and no one seems to mention it outside of that environment, but maybe that's accidental library bigotry -- *Greg K*
