Managing social data in Silverlight: do you push or pull?

Here’s a problem you want to have: many concurrent connections to your web application, all vying for your precious data. Before you enjoy the challenges of that problem, you should consider whether your application works best in a push or pull scenario. In summary, pull applications are the most common; any time your client makes a service call to your application or another, expecting relevant data in the response, you are “pulling” data from a source and into your application. This is a fine way to go, as you are only keeping a thread in use long enough to…

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