Get help deciding how to select the appropriate client/server communication technology for your development processes. How do you choose from Web services, Web Services Enhancements (WSE), Enterprise ...

I was working out/thinking about using a simple UDP protocol to send messages between 2 apps, and i started thinking about "what if" disconnection scenarios, and knowing if messages made their way ...

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WebSockets is a network communication protocol that enables two-way client-server communication. WebSockets are often used for applications that require instantaneous updates, using a persistent ...

Are there any special adjustments that need to be made (on the SQL server side, or the database/query side) to accomodate for communications over a slow(er) WAN link? We have had slow performance to ...

(1) A communications network that uses dedicated servers. In this context, the term is used to contrast it with a peer-to-peer network, which allows any client to also be a server. (2) A network that ...