SignalR Realtime Application Cookbook - Softcover

Roberto Vespa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783285958 ISBN 13: 9781783285952

Publisher: Packt Publishing - ebooks Account, 2014

Synopsis

SignalR is a recent addition to ASP.NET which allows you to add real-time functionalities to your applications. SignalR enables bi-directional communication between client and server over HTTP, transparently using a variety of systems to ensure you're always provided with the experience of a persistent connection. This way SignalR enables servers to push information down to the connected clients through a very simple and streamlined API.

SignalR is based on standard web technologies but its usage is not limited to ASP.NET web applications: in fact, it comes with client libraries to perform connections from either JavaScript or different types of .NET applications. SignalR is a great tool which enables you to build modern, interactive and efficient applications based on web technologies.

SignalR Real-time Application Cookbook is a practical, hands-on guide that provides a number of clear step-by-step recipes that will gradually enable you to add SignalR as an innovative, effective and useful item in your toolbox. This book will move from simple examples down to complex use cases, going through a comprehensive overview of the library. This book clarifies how SignalR works and how it s structured, exposing the main concepts by taking you down a path from simple to advanced recipes. Along the way you will learn how to perform a set of common tasks, and at the end of the book you will find a set of ready-made solutions for more complex scenarios.

With this book, you will learn how to create bi-directional connections using the available APIs. You will also learn the differences between them and how to choose the most appropriate API for your requirements. You will also learn how to perform authorization, how to deal with cross-domain scenarios, how to scale up and scale out your applications, and how to hook into the library to extend its behavior.

SignalR Real-time Application Cookbook will teach you everything you need to know to become easily and quickly productive in all the main scenarios covered by this useful library.

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About the Author

Roberto Vespa

Roberto Vespa has been passionate about programming computers since he was at high school, and he always wanted to do that for a living. He has a degree in Electronic Engineering obtained in Italy, and has been working in the Information Technology industry since 1995, consulting on many different projects and for several customers. He is a software developer and architect with strong experience on the Windows platform, and in particular on the .NET Framework since Version 1.0, and on web technologies. He has always been working across a broad spectrum of responsibilities from distributed applications to complex user interfaces, from architecture and designing solutions to debugging server and client code, and from native Windows clients to web user interfaces. He loves to learn, share, and communicate about technology. He wrote technical articles for an Italian magazine in the past, and now puts his effort into looking at the latest advances in programming or in contributing to open source projects such as ElmahR, a realtime error monitoring web dashboard built on top of SignalR. You can find out more about it at http://elmahr.apphb.com/. Since 2011, he has been working in Switzerland where he lives with his wife, Cecilia, and their cats. You can follow him on Twitter at @wasp_twit. Roberto's blogs are at http://www.robychechi.it/roby.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing - ebooks Account
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783285958
• ISBN 13: 9781783285952
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 345