I've not developed for silverlight, but normal .Net apps have the same limit. The System.Net.ServicePointManager.DefaultConnectionLimit property limits the number of connections, default is two... Maybe this is available in silverlight?
David -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Hodge Sent: Tuesday, 23 June 2009 12:23 a.m. To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Silverlight limited to 2 simultaneous connections? >From the mighty Jorke: http://blogs.msdn.com/wenlong/archive/2009/02/08/why-only-two-concurrent -requests-for-load-testing.aspx > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jordan Knight > Sent: Monday, 22 June 2009 10:19 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Silverlight limited to 2 simultaneous connections? > > So go crazy and use a few Silverlight controls and the new instance to > instance comms stuff in SL3 to load a few at once :P > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John OBrien > Sent: Monday, 22 June 2009 9:45 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Silverlight limited to 2 simultaneous connections? > > I think you may be onto something Jordan. The application that has > brought > this to my attention is not server restricted but I appreciate your > comments > Caleb, they are great general suggestions but it seems that Silverlight > is > ignoring them. > Take a look at: > http://soulsolutions.com.au/silverlight/blacklight/ > > It is rendering 6 Bing map controls inside a single Silverlight > application. > The tiles are coming from 4 different domains and yet only two request > at a > time are coming from Silverlight. I'm using IE8. > > The performance is horrible, you have to wait for each DeepZoom image > to > complete before the next one starts. Fiddler confirms sets of 2 > requests. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jordan Knight > Sent: Monday, 22 June 2009 9:22 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Silverlight limited to 2 simultaneous connections? > > I'd have thought it would be a lowest common denominator problem > myself... > the crappest browser can do 2 at once so thats what Silverlight > supports to > maintain the best compat? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Caleb Jenkins > Sent: Monday, 22 June 2009 9:13 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Silverlight limited to 2 simultaneous connections? > > John - generally that's a server restriction, and something that has > been > well documented on for IIS as well as various strategies in the HTML > communities have been developed to help "get around" this. > > For IIS its important when you are using IIS as an application / middle > teir > / wcf server with an IIS front end web server. In that scenario you > still > want the limitation from the front end server to the clients, but you > want > to increase the allowed cnnection from the app server to the UI server. > > The more general html/web strategies involve breaking you resources in > to > various sub domains/servers. Images.domain /css/js/html can be placed > on > various "domains" to increase your simultanious connections from 2 to > 8. The > other strategy is to increase individual payloads and decrease number > of > requests. This plays out by combining multiple images on to a single > image > and the using css and css "sprite" support to slice and lay out the > images > client side. Take a look at the bing.com home page for an exaple of > that. > The "blurry" boxes are actually attached to the main image. > > Hope that helps! (I'm going to blame all typo's on my phone's "intelli- > type" > and the complete lack of a spell check :) > > Caleb Jenkins > > [email protected] > m: 469.867.4552 | b: developingUX.com > > [*] Improving - It's what we do! > (send from Windows Mobile 6) > > > ________________________________ > From: John OBrien <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 2:16 AM > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Silverlight limited to 2 simultaneous connections? > > Anyone know why Silverlight2 seems to be restricted to 2 simultaneous > requests only? > I have changed the browser settings to allow 8, put in 4 different > domains > to allow for 8 and even used firefox that supports 8 natively with no > luck. > > Is there a configuration somewhere at the plugin level to change this? > ________________________________ > Support procedure: https://www.codify.com/lists/support > List address: > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > Subscribe: > [email protected]<mailto:ozsilverlight- > subscr...@ozs > ilverlight.com> > Unsubscribe: > [email protected]<mailto:ozsilverlight- > unsubscribe > @ozsilverlight.com> > List FAQ: http://www.codify.com/lists/ozsilverlight > Other lists you might want to join: http://www.codify.com/lists > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > ---- > Support procedure: https://www.codify.com/lists/support > List address: [email protected] > Subscribe: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: [email protected] > List FAQ: http://www.codify.com/lists/ozsilverlight > Other lists you might want to join: http://www.codify.com/lists > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > ---- > Support procedure: https://www.codify.com/lists/support > List address: [email protected] > Subscribe: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: [email protected] > List FAQ: http://www.codify.com/lists/ozsilverlight > Other lists you might want to join: http://www.codify.com/lists > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------- > Support procedure: https://www.codify.com/lists/support > List address: [email protected] > Subscribe: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: [email protected] > List FAQ: http://www.codify.com/lists/ozsilverlight > Other lists you might want to join: http://www.codify.com/lists > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------- > Support procedure: https://www.codify.com/lists/support > List address: [email protected] > Subscribe: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: [email protected] > List FAQ: http://www.codify.com/lists/ozsilverlight > Other lists you might want to join: http://www.codify.com/lists > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Support procedure: https://www.codify.com/lists/support List address: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] List FAQ: http://www.codify.com/lists/ozsilverlight Other lists you might want to join: http://www.codify.com/lists -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Support procedure: https://www.codify.com/lists/support List address: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] List FAQ: http://www.codify.com/lists/ozsilverlight Other lists you might want to join: http://www.codify.com/lists
