Good C#.NET Solution to manage frequent database polling

Question

I am currently working on a c# .NET desktop application that will be communicating to a database over the internet via WCF and WCF Data Services. There will be many spots in th

Answer 1

If the expensive operation is the server to pooling the database, you should implement some sort of caching. It can be basic as ASP.NET caching or advanced as using memcached.

But if the expensive operation is the client pooling the server, you can use an Atom or RSS feed with PubSubHubbub to minimize the number of requests to the server. It'll get cheaper since there are some free PubSubHubbub publishers that will handle the load.