Using SqlCacheDependency to get real time updates? - ASP.NET
- by user102533
I would like to display real time updates on a web page (based on a status field in a database table that is altered by an external process). Based on my research, there are several ways of doing this.
Long Polling (Comet) - This seems to be complex to implement
Regular Polling - I can have an AJAX method trigger a database hit every 5seconds to get the current status. But I fear this will have performance issues.
Then I read about using SqlCacheDependency - basically the cache gets invalidated based on a field in the table. I am assuming I can use the event trigerred when the cache is invalidated to show the new update to the user?
What's an easy solution that will not have performance issues?
anyone?