Aynchronous web server calls in Silverlight and maximum HTTP connections

Question

I\'ve read that Silverlight 2.0 imposes by design an asynchronous model when communicating with the web server. I haven\'t had a chance to experiment with Silverlight, but I

Answer 1

In IE (haven't tested others) Silverlight is restricted to 2 connections at a time.

The behavior in Silverlight is to simply not make the request. So if you make 5 Async web service requests right in a row, the first 2 will happen, the other three won't. No exception is thrown that i've seen...

Fiddler is a big help here :)