SignalR: Real-time Application Development - Second Edition
A fast-paced guide to develop, test, and deliver real-time communication in your .NET applications using SignalR
Published on 7. October 2025
222 pages
978-1-78528-862-3 (ISBN)
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Book DescriptionWith technology trends, demands on software have changed with more and more skilled users. Over the past few years, with services such as Facebook, Twitter and push notifications on smartphones, users are now getting used to being up to date with everything that happens all the time. With SignalR, the applications stay connected and will generate notifications when something happens either from the system or by other users thus giving new opportunities to enter into this new, exciting world of real-time application development. This is a step-by-step guide that follows a practical approach helping you as a developer getting to get started with SignalR by learning its fundamentals. It will help you through building real-time applications using the new methods and functions in the SignalR framework. Starting from getting persistent connections with the server, you will learn the basics of connecting a client to the server and how the messaging works. This will be followed by setting up a hub on the server and consuming it from a JavaScript client. Next you will be taught how you can group connections together to send messages. We will then go on to know how you can have state in the client to handle specific operations like connecting or disconnecting. Then, moving on you will learn how to secure your SignalR connections using OWIN and scaling SignalR across multiple servers. Next you will learn building a client for WPF and building a client using Xamarin that targets Windows Phone, iPhone and Android. Lastly, you will learn how to monitor the traffic in SignalR using Fiddler, Charles and hosting SignalR using OWIN.What you will learn
Explore the basic knowledge and understanding of SignalR
Get to know how to connect client to the server
Connecting a client with a server and setting a hub
Creating group connections together
Understand how to have state in the client to have specific operations
Securing SignalR connections
How to scale SignalR across multiple servers
Building a client for WPF
Building a client using Xamarin targeting Windows, iPhone and Android
Get to grips with monitoring the traffic in SignalR using Fiddler for Windows and Charles for OSX
Setting up code to host SignalR using OWIN
Who this book is forIf you are a .Net developer with good understanding of the .Net platform then this is an ideal book for you to learn how to build real-time apps using the SignalR framework.
Book DescriptionWith technology trends, demands on software have changed with more and more skilled users. Over the past few years, with services such as Facebook, Twitter and push notifications on smartphones, users are now getting used to being up to date with everything that happens all the time. With SignalR, the applications stay connected and will generate notifications when something happens either from the system or by other users thus giving new opportunities to enter into this new, exciting world of real-time application development. This is a step-by-step guide that follows a practical approach helping you as a developer getting to get started with SignalR by learning its fundamentals. It will help you through building real-time applications using the new methods and functions in the SignalR framework. Starting from getting persistent connections with the server, you will learn the basics of connecting a client to the server and how the messaging works. This will be followed by setting up a hub on the server and consuming it from a JavaScript client. Next you will be taught how you can group connections together to send messages. We will then go on to know how you can have state in the client to handle specific operations like connecting or disconnecting. Then, moving on you will learn how to secure your SignalR connections using OWIN and scaling SignalR across multiple servers. Next you will learn building a client for WPF and building a client using Xamarin that targets Windows Phone, iPhone and Android. Lastly, you will learn how to monitor the traffic in SignalR using Fiddler, Charles and hosting SignalR using OWIN.What you will learn
Explore the basic knowledge and understanding of SignalR
Get to know how to connect client to the server
Connecting a client with a server and setting a hub
Creating group connections together
Understand how to have state in the client to have specific operations
Securing SignalR connections
How to scale SignalR across multiple servers
Building a client for WPF
Building a client using Xamarin targeting Windows, iPhone and Android
Get to grips with monitoring the traffic in SignalR using Fiddler for Windows and Charles for OSX
Setting up code to host SignalR using OWIN
Who this book is forIf you are a .Net developer with good understanding of the .Net platform then this is an ideal book for you to learn how to build real-time apps using the SignalR framework.
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Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Birmingham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
File size
3,57 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78528-862-3 (9781785288623)
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SignalR - Real-time Application Development - Second Edition
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Ingerbrigsten Einar :
Einar Ingebrigtsen has been working professionally with software since 1994-ranging from games development on platforms such as PlayStation, Xbox, and the PC to the enterprise line of business application development since 2002. He has always focused on creating great products with great user experiences, putting the user first. Einar was a Microsoft MVP awardee from October 2008 until July 2015, which he was awarded for his work in the community and in the Silverlight space with open source projects such as Balder, a 3D engine for Silverlight. For years, Einar ran a company called Dolittle together with partners, doing consultancy work and building their own products with their own open source projects at the heart of what they did. Amongst the clients that Dolittle has had over 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). Today, Einar works for Microsoft as a technical evangelist, focusing on Azure and advising ISVs, which meant giving up the MVP title. A strong believer in open source, he runs a few projects in addition to Balder, the largest being Bifrost ( http://bifr.st), a line of business platforms for .NET developers, and also worth mentioning is Forseti ( http://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 he has mostly focused on architecture, code quality, and cloud computing. His personal blog is at http://www.ingebrigtsen.info. Einar has also published another book on the subject of SignalR Blueprints, by Packt Publishing.
Einar Ingebrigtsen has been working professionally with software since 1994-ranging from games development on platforms such as PlayStation, Xbox, and the PC to the enterprise line of business application development since 2002. He has always focused on creating great products with great user experiences, putting the user first. Einar was a Microsoft MVP awardee from October 2008 until July 2015, which he was awarded for his work in the community and in the Silverlight space with open source projects such as Balder, a 3D engine for Silverlight. For years, Einar ran a company called Dolittle together with partners, doing consultancy work and building their own products with their own open source projects at the heart of what they did. Amongst the clients that Dolittle has had over 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). Today, Einar works for Microsoft as a technical evangelist, focusing on Azure and advising ISVs, which meant giving up the MVP title. A strong believer in open source, he runs a few projects in addition to Balder, the largest being Bifrost ( http://bifr.st), a line of business platforms for .NET developers, and also worth mentioning is Forseti ( http://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 he has mostly focused on architecture, code quality, and cloud computing. His personal blog is at http://www.ingebrigtsen.info. Einar has also published another book on the subject of SignalR Blueprints, by Packt Publishing.
Content
Table of Contents
Priming Ourselves
Persistent Connections
Hubs
Groups
State
Security
Scaling out
Building a WPF .NET client
Write once, deploy many
Monitoring
Hosting a server using self hosted Owin
Priming Ourselves
Persistent Connections
Hubs
Groups
State
Security
Scaling out
Building a WPF .NET client
Write once, deploy many
Monitoring
Hosting a server using self hosted Owin
