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Using Node.js in an ASP.NET MVC application with iisnode

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My understanding is that IIS is thread based. So wouldn't using it as a host/balancer inherently cripple Node? I mean I get the benefit of the possible inter-op with .NET. However, I, and perhaps this is because I come from a Java background so I make things hard, would use Node.exe, but would have everything talk in more of an SOA manner. Node uses itself and other tools that are good for load balancing a tool like it and .NET talks to Node via services.

What am I missing?

IIS isn't blocking any of its threads once it's handed a request off to Node.js. IIS receives the incoming connection and proxies it via a named pipe into the Node.exe process, so the performance and capacity is much the same as if the requests went directly to Node.

Thanks for the reply. It's interesting to so how MS is trying to involve themselves in public, interesting research.

Wow, this is exactly what I need for a project I'm working on right now.

It's rare incredibly rare for Windows ports of *nix open source projects to be so well integrated. It runs native code using IOCP and there exists IIS and IIS Manager support.

This is awesome!

Agreed - I'm hopeful that npm can see some love on Windows as well. As more and more utilities take advantage of node that aren't strictly web-related, having first-class npm support on Windows will be even more helpful.

This is really interesting. I'm just getting started on a project with a lot of web front end that's targeted at Azure. I had been planning on using ASP.NET MVC with Razor, but I think node makes a lot more sense.

you might want to check out AppHarbor as well if you're interested in integrated with other non-MS services and also to check out the platform.

I echo the approval of AppHarbor. They have integrated with Bitbucket so that when you push it triggers a rebuild/deployment.

I actually already have a beta account and have checked it out. It looks promising, but this is one of those political situations. I think AppHarbor will probably end up replacing AWS as our second platform though.

Well, it takes a while but it's great to see native Windows ports of more or less game changing projects like Node and Hadoop (http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/10/microsoft-makes...). Although I guess the fact that innovation happens ever more often in non-Microsoft land is telling enough.

Is there a particular flavor of web socket or comet that popular with node?

Take a look at Socket.IO

As cjfront is saying, Socket.IO supports Web Sockets, Flash sockets and long polling. The nice thing is it detects the capabilities of the browser and gracefully degrades.

great to finally see something like this!

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