Hmm. Maybe I’m just suffering a post-holiday motivational low ( which I am, in a big way 🙂 ) but I’ve been reading this;

Accessing Duplex Services

and I’m struggling to see how the “reward” here is justifying the “effort”.

With Silverlight, it’s pretty easy for me to call a request-response service on a polled interval. I just;

1. Write the service exactly as usual.
2. Configure it exactly as usual.
3. Generate a proxy exactly as usual.
4. Call it exactly as usual.
5. Use a client-side timer to call it again after some interval.

This is really pretty easy stuff and results in a lot less code than the “polling binding” so I’m struggling to see why I’d bother with it. It seems to be;

1. More code
2. More complexity
3. Same (or very similar) functionality

So why would I do it? Anyone? Anyone? 🙂