4. Agenda
• What is SignalR?
• What does it do?
• Where is it used?
• Demo
• Take aways
• Q&A
5. 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
6. What does it do?
• Connect/disconnect events
• Grouping
• Client – server connectivity
7. Where is it used?
• Jabbr
• Shootr
• Goeleven.com
• https://github.com/SignalR/SignalR/wiki/Projects-Using-SignalR
(22 and counting)
• Other possibilities
• Multiplayer games
• Anywhere polling is used