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SignalR Real-time Application Cookbook

By : Roberto Vespa
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SignalR Real-time Application Cookbook

By: Roberto Vespa

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
SignalR Real-time Application Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Implementing a real-time error notification system


A real-time notification system is often useful, if not necessary, to handle unexpected events in order to make humans or their automated counterparts aware of what's going on while things happen. An unhandled exception could well be one of those scenarios where such a system could become interesting. In this recipe, we'll see how we can set up a sample application so that it can intercept unhandled exceptions in a single central place and post them to a monitoring system that will then use SignalR to broadcast the details about the errors it receives to its users.

We will not need many features from SignalR; actually, the only feature that we'll really need is the capability to invoke a client-side callback from outside any hub's method, thanks to the hub context.

Getting ready

Our sample will consist of the following two different projects:

  • Recipe52: This is a simple and traditional sample web application with just one page that raises an...