Build real-time ASP.NET web applications with SignalR and create various interesting projects to improve your user experience
About This Book
- Learn how to apply real-time communications to your application
- Understand high-level concepts such as high frequency messaging with SignalR
- A step-by-step guide with real-world examples to help you develop applications
Who This Book Is For
This book is designed for software developers, primarily those with knowledge of C#, .NET, and JavaScript. Good knowledge and understanding of SignalR is assumed to allow efficient programming of core elements and applications in SignalR.
What You Will Learn
- Discover how to use SignalR with ASP.NET MVC 5
- Learn how to apply security to your applications
- Understand the significance of publish and subscribe models
- Discover the wonders of Model-View-ViewModel as a frontend pattern
- Learn how to decouple your applications and really apply the SOLID principles
- Deploy SignalR and real-time thinking to the mobile space through Windows Phone 8.1 RT
- Apply Domain Driven Design through Command Query Responsibility Segregation
In Detail
SignalR is an ASP.NET library that enables web developers to add real-time web functionality to ASP.NET applications.
In this book, you'll learn the technical aspects of SignalR and understand why and when you should use SignalR in different use cases. The focus on quality combined with clear, real-world examples will enable you to successfully create your own maintainable software in no time. The book starts by covering the need for SignalR before moving on to its architecture. We'll then take you through the building of a forum that benefits from SignalR. You will also see how to connect your phone as a frontend for SignalR. We will then cover some of the out-of-the-box techniques that you can apply to find out why hosting your solution is vital.
By the end of this book, you will understand the sweet spots of SignalR, and more importantly, how it can be part of improving the user experience.
Einar Ingebrigtsen
Einar Ingebrigtsen has been working professionally with software since 1994, ranging from games development on platforms such as the PlayStation, Xbox, and PC to the enterprise line of business application development since 2002. He has always kept his focus on creating great products with great user experiences, putting the user first. Einar received the Microsoft MVP award in October 2008, awarded for his work in the community and in Silverlight space with open source projects such as Balder―a 3D engine for Silverlight. Today, Einar runs a company called Dolittle together with his partners, doing consultancy and building his own products with their own open source projects at the heart of what they do. The clients that Dolittle has had in the last couple of years include NRK (the largest TV broadcaster in Norway), Statoil (a Norwegian oil company), Komplett (the largest e-commerce company in Norway), and Holte (a leading Norwegian developer for construction software). A strong believer in open source, Einar runs a few projects in addition to Balder, the largest being Bifrost (http://bifrost.dolittle.com/), a line of business platform for .NET developers, and Forseti (https://github.com/dolittle/forseti), a headless auto-running JavaScript test runner. Additionally, Einar loves talking at user groups and conferences and has been a frequent speaker at Microsoft venues, talking about different topics―the last couple of years mostly about architecture, code quality, and cloud computing. His personal blog is at http://www.ingebrigtsen.info/ and the company blog is at http://blog.dolittle.com/. Einar is also the author of the book SignalR: Real-time Application Development, Packt Publishing.
