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Introduction to ASP.NET SignalR
- [Instructor] In today's world, we expect applications to have real-time capabilities where we get instant updates to the latest information. Whether it's a dashboard, a chat feature, or real-time collaboration between users, like editing documents or gaming, it's likely that at some point you'll need to support real-time web functionality. The good news is that ASP.NET offers developers a library called SignalR. It makes the process of adding real-time functionality pretty straightforward. With SignalR, server code can push information to connected clients as it becomes available. The server doesn't have to wait for a client to make a data request. Here's how it works. SignalR offers an API called the Hubs API. It lets server code call out to client code with remote procedure calls, or RPC. Basically, .NET code on the server side can call JavaScript functions in a client like a web browser. This is called server push functionality. It's a different model from what we're used to with…
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