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Display progress of process that runs on backend


I'm developing Silverlight 4 LOB application and need to provide correct visualization of process that runs on back-end. Basically I need to show progress of operation that is currently running on server side.

Is there any correct way of implementing this functionality?


Solution

  • RIA doesn't support the server notifying the client. So the only way would be to find a way to query the progress periodically or just display a spinny wheel. Of course, splitting up the process as much as possible would help too (so you could display step 3/5 Fooing the bar [Spinny Wheel]).