Ajax Based Polling in ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC

Recently a reader asked as to how Ajax polling can be implemented in ASP.NET applications. This short post attempts to answer that question. In the SSE and SignalR techniques mentioned earlier the server sends a notification to the client whenever some interesting event happens on the server. On the other hand Ajax base polling involves the client side code periodically checking the server for some status change.

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