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SignalR Blueprints

By : Einar Ingerbrigsten
Book Image

SignalR Blueprints

By: Einar Ingerbrigsten

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
SignalR Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
9
Debugging or Troubleshooting
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we've scratched the surface of SignalR, but you already should get a sense of the power of thinking differently about how you build your applications by creating your own simple discussion forum. The fact that we just define methods in C# and these are automatically accessible from the client code through the generated proxies makes it really productive to work with. It basically bridges the gap between the client and the server. What you'll notice is that we managed to actually create a forum that works, deploying the latest and greatest of technologies in the ASP.NET space in very little code.

In the next chapter, we'll dive into how this real-time thinking can go even further and how to deal with scale. By taking another common real-world sample and online newspapers, we'll see how you can deploy SignalR to improve things for newspaper readers and...