C# MVC notification system

Question

I'm working on a C# MVC 4 application and I want to make a notification system much like facebook.

I thought about adding a notification in a table for each event, and then make AJAX calls to the database each 1 minute to retrieve notifications for the current user.

But I'm afraid it's too heavy.

Answer 1

Your best bet would be to go with SignalR. Its designed for the purpose of real time notification

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