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Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801813433

Length 814 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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.NET

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Cross Platform Mobile Development

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Mark J. Price

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Introducing Apps and Services with .NET

2. Managing Relational Data Using SQL Server FREE CHAPTER

3. Managing NoSQL Data Using Azure Cosmos DB

4. Benchmarking Performance, Multitasking, and Concurrency

5. Implementing Popular Third-Party Libraries

6. Observing and Modifying Code Execution Dynamically

7. Handling Dates, Times, and Internationalization

8. Protecting Your Data and Applications

9. Building and Securing Web Services Using Minimal APIs

10. Exposing Data via the Web Using OData

11. Combining Data Sources Using GraphQL

12. Building Efficient Microservices Using gRPC

13. Broadcasting Real-Time Communication Using SignalR

14. Building Serverless Nanoservices Using Azure Functions

15. Building Web User Interfaces Using ASP.NET Core

16. Building Web Components Using Blazor WebAssembly

17. Leveraging Open-Source Blazor Component Libraries

18. Building Mobile and Desktop Apps Using .NET MAUI

19. Integrating .NET MAUI Apps with Blazor and Native Platforms

20. Introducing the Survey Project Challenge

21. Epilogue

22. Index

Understanding SignalR

The web is great for building general-purpose websites and services, but it was not designed for specialized scenarios that require a web page to be instantaneously updated with new information as it becomes available.

The history of real-time communication on the web

To understand the benefits of SignalR, it helps to know the history of HTTP and how organizations worked to make it better for real-time communication between clients and servers.

In the early days of the web in the 1990s, browsers had to make a full-page HTTP GET request to the web server to get fresh information to show to the visitor.

In late 1999, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 5.0 with a component named XMLHttpRequest that could make asynchronous HTTP calls in the background. This alongside dynamic HTML (DHTML) allowed parts of the web page to be updated with fresh data smoothly.

The benefits of this technique were obvious, and soon all browsers added the same component...

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The history of real-time communication on the web

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