title: Intense Distributed C# (WCF) Architecture Design
body: <p>I want to design a new distributed application, but I have a few queries that I need some genius advice on, hopefully from you people:</p>
  <h3>Scenario</h3>
  <p>I currently support a legacy application that is starting to fall between the cracks.
  It is a distributed Client-Server app implemented using .Net Remoting. I can't explain exactly what it does, because I'm not allowed to.......But let's just say that it does LOTS of MATHS. I want to re-design and re-write the application using WCF.</p>
  <h3>Pre-requisites</h3>
  <p>The server side of the implementation will be hosted in a Windows Service.
  The client side will be a windows forms application.
  The server side will perform lots of memory-intensive processing.
  The server will spit this data out to multiple thin clients (20-ish).
  The majority of the time the server will be passing data to the clients, but occasionally the clients will be persisting data back to the server.
  The speed at which the data is transmitted is highly-important, however I'm well aware that WCF can handle fast distribution of data.
  Encryption/Security is not that important as the app will run on a highly protected local network.</p>
  <h3>Queries</h3>
  <p>Given the information above:</p>
  <p>1)What sort of design pattern am I best going with? - Baring in mind I want the server to continually PUSH the newly calculated information immediately to the clients, as opposed to the current implementation that involves the client pulling from the server continuously.
  2)What type of WCF binding should I use to ensure maximum speed of data transfer? (as close to real-time as possible is what I'm after)
  3)Should I use a class library to share the common objects between the client and the server applications?
  4)What is the best way in which to databind my objects on the client side in order to see live updates continually as data changes?</p>
  <h3>If I've forgotten anything then feel free to point this out</h3>
  <p>Help greatly appreciated.</p>