Options for real-time web notifications and updates using Comet/XMPP vs WebSocket technologies on a Microsoft stack?

Question

I am scoping out the architectural options for a project that will render live updates (like Facebook) of user activities - logins, photos, etc. Two main UI components of t

Answer 1

It seems you pick the most stable Comet implementations available. All of them look stable, capable to host ten to hundred thousands of users per node and more.

So, what could be the next? For example, PokeIn is going to host all aspects of a web application over VisualJS.NET; Video-1, Video-2

This also shows the built-in capabilities of this library and the varieties you can do..

Besides, latest version supports Base64 serialization for the messages between a client and server hence no more naked JSON messages on network packages.

UPDATE: PokeIn 2.0 has built-in WebSockets support.