asp.net mvc update webpage from server

What I'm trying to do is force a webpage to updat开发者_C百科e with new content without refreshing when it is set on the server.

Ideally a user would be looking at a blank page that would update with specific content when it is set on the server or in the database.

Any ideas on how I could go about doing that?

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Traditionally, the client (ie the web browser) would poll the server every so often to fetch new data.

However, there are a number of server push frameworks out there. Have a look at the following article on COMET. I believe this is used by such sites as meebo and Chess.com (for playing live chess online in the browser).

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You would need to create a jQuery Ajax call to poll the server every X seconds checking for new content. When the call returns, it would append/prepend the content to the page automatically.

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Use ajax to poll the server for new content or use comet

Neither are particularly beautiful solutions, but the web is "connectionless" for now but there are ways round it.