Visual studio web application

I want to create a web application using visual studio to implement a client/server. The server program will be a simple console application that waits for a connection from the client. The clien开发者_运维问答t will be a web application. I have look at Silverlight but that would require the client side to download the silverlight plug-in and could be restricted.

Whats a different approach to this that would require minimal to no installation on the client side??

You got the terminology wrong.. If you want the user to use a web browser in order to use your application (which is the case for Silverlight) - and you want to use c# (without making the user install anything else)- go with either ASP.NET or ASP.NET MVC.

If you want the client to be a winform/WPF application, sending requests to a server - go with WCF on the server side.

If you're not sure what you want, please make it a new question of itself.