title: .NET 4.5 WebSockets vs SignalR
body: <p>I've seen <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9307675/signalr-vs-html5-websockets-for-asp-net-mvc-chat-application">signalR vs html5 websockets for asp.net MVC chat application</a> but it doesn't 100% answer my question as it's based around HTML5 WebSockets, which Microsoft may have extended upon in .NET 4.5 with their WebSocket object.</p>
  
  <p>I'm wondering if the WebSocket feature does actually do the same as SignalR and fall back to long polling when WebSockets aren't available? Surely Microsoft would implement the same technology as SignalR in their approach to this technology?</p>
  
  <p>Edit:</p>
  
  <p>For anyone else wondering about this, I found this comment the most helpful to understand the scenario and why I'll be using SignalR:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Well, they are not really. Up until now IIS and ASP.NET didn't have
    anything built in that supported WebSockets so SignalR project had to
    build it themselves. Now that Microsoft is providing the plumbing
    SignalR could easily switch to using Microsoft's implementation,
    either in addition to or instead of their own. SignalR is an
    abstraction over implementation details, WebScockets class is the
    implementation detail</p>
  </blockquote>