1. #comdaybe
SignalR & WP8
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Nico Vermeir

2. Who am I?
@NicoVermei
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4. Agenda
• What is SignalR?
• What does it do?
• Where is it used?
• Demo
• Take aways
• Q&A

5. What is SignalR?
SignalR & WP8

6. What is SignalR?
• Asp.net library
• Client –Server two way communication
• Leverages HTML5 WebSockets
– Fallback to other tech where not available
• Lots of platforms already supported
– Windows Phone 8
– Windows 8
– Silverlight 5
– Jquery
– .NET 4.5
• More coming
• https://github.com/SignalR/SignalR

7. What does it do?
SignalR & WP8

8. What does it do?
• Connect/disconnect events
• Grouping
• Client – server connectivity

9. Where is it used?
SignalR & WP8

10. Where is it used?
• Jabbr
• Shootr
• Goeleven.com
• https://github.com/SignalR/SignalR/wiki/P
rojects-Using-SignalR
(22 and counting)
• Other possibilities
– Multiplayer games
– Anywhere polling is used

11. demo
SignalR & WP8

12. Take aways
• Easy to use
• Yet very powerful
• Lots of client platforms
• Very active development
• Open source

13. Q&A

14. Thank you!
SignalR & WP8