This document summarizes a presentation about using SignalR to enable real-time functionality between client and server applications. SignalR provides an abstraction layer over various transport mechanisms like web sockets to maintain persistent connections. The presentation demonstrates live examples of SignalR to update clients in real-time without polling. It also discusses where SignalR fits compared to other real-time technologies and how it can be used on various platforms through client libraries. Questions from the audience are then invited.

1. Samidip Basu
Windows Phone + SignalR = Awesome Possibilities!

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3. The Hardest Problems
Solved By the Best Engineers

4. Local Touch – Global Reach
Intro to SignalR + Awesome Mobile Possibilities !
Samidip Basu
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7. Why do we need real-time?
New email
Twitter/Facebook updates
Stock Ticker/Live Auctions
Game Scores
Real-time Notifications
Turn-by-Turn Games
Collaboration
Progress Bars
And obviously, Chat

8. Existing Technologies
HTTP – purely Request/Response protocol
Internet – stateless; servers don’t call your app back
Consumption model .. But we’ve learnt tricks
Periodic/Ajax Polling – not real-time, bandwidth misuse
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9. Existing Technologies ..
Contd.
Use plugins like SL/Flash – to access sockets
Native Web Sockets help – but low level & support flaky
Long Polling – server does not respond unless X happens,
client polls after data receive or time-out
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10. Enter SignalR
An async, persistent connection/signalling library for .NET ... aids in building
real time, multi-user connected applications.
Persistent client-server connection over best transport .. Abstracts away the
transport layer.
From ASP.NET team-members (Damian Edwards & David Fowler) ..
Not officially MSFT product, but OSS Boom! 
https://github.com/SignalR/SignalR
http://jabbr.net/#/rooms/signal
SignalR is broken up into a few packages on NuGet:
SignalR - Package for SignalR.Server and SignalR.Js
SignalR.Server - Server components needed for SignalR endpoints
SignalR.Js - Javascript client for SignalR
SignalR.Client - .NET client for SignalR
SignalR.WP7 & SignalR.Silverlight – For the cool folks 
SignalR.WebSockets - WebSocket Transport for SignalR

11. Live Demos
Whoa .. What happened here?
Client calls server; Server calls client; seamlessly
No polling, at least in our code
Server maintains Clients .. Broadcast to all, group or individual clients
Low level – PersistentConnection; more control
Abstraction – Hub; easier to use

12. Where does this fit?
Other technologies have solved this problem
Socket.IO is a client-side Jscript library that talks to node.js
Nowjs supports namespace sync between client-server
Primary SignalR advantages
→ Simplicity & ease of use
→ Works natively in .NET
→ Works out of browser
→ Supports Web Sockets through a NuGet package
[ASP.NET 4.5/IIS 8 on Win8 only]
WebSocket is a web technology providing for multiplexing bi-directional, full-duplex
communications channels over a single TCP connection. Still being standardized.
→ Works on other platforms

13. SignalR Client for iOS
http://dyknow.github.com/SignalR-ObjC/

14. SignalR Client for Mono
http://blog.rthand.com/post/2012/03/14/SignalR-client-on-Mono-for-Android.aspx

15. Local Touch – Global Reach
Questions?
Thank you !!
@samidip
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