SignalR – Real-time Application Development

338 Pages·2015·5.76 MB·English

by  Einar Ingebrigtsen

SignalR – Real-time Application
Development Second Edition
Table of Contents
SignalR – Real-time Application Development Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
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Preface
The emperor’s new clothes
The good old terminal
X Server
Remote desktop
Rich clients
The Web
Full duplex on the Web
Events
Comet
Hand-rolling it all
Why?
Now what?
Think different
Personal style
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. The Primer
Where are we coming from?
The terminal
Fast forwarding
Completing the circle
SignalR
Terminology
Messaging
Publish/subscribe
Decoupling
Patterns
Model View Controller
Model View ViewModel
Libraries and frameworks
jQuery
ASP.NET MVC 5
AngularJS
Twitter Bootstrap
Tools
Visual Studio 2013
NuGet
Summary
2. Persistent Connections
Persistent connections – what are they?
Where are we going?
Getting the project ready
Setting up the packages
The single page application
The “code-behind”
Getting started with the server-side
Connecting the dots
Making the UI light up
Summary
3. Hubs
Moving up a level
The client
Decoupling it all
The Dependency Inversion Principle
Proxies
Life cycle events
Separation
Summary
4. Groups
Getting specific with groups
Composing the UI
Summary
5. State
Becoming stateful
The client
Lifetime event handlers and more
Summary
6. Security
Locking things down
Putting the infrastructure in place
HTTP handler config
Authentication
Securing the hub
The great finale
Summary
7. Scaling Out
It’s all about messages in SignalR
Scaling out with SQL Server
Scaling out with Redis
Scaling out with Azure
Creating our own backplane
Hooking it all up
Summary
8. Building a WPF .NET Client
Decoupling it all
Decoupling – the next level
Building for the desktop
Setting up the packages
Observables
Adding security
Adding support for cookies
Binding helper
Creating a client security service
Adding a login view
The hub proxy
Our chat rooms
The chat
The composition
Summary
9. Write Once, Deploy Many
Cross platform
Getting started
Code signing
Preparing for connections
Packages
MVVM
Messenger
DelegateCommand
Security
ChatHub
Login
ChatRooms
Chat
The result
Summary
10. Monitoring
Logging
Logging on the server side
Logging in the JavaScript client
Logging in the .NET client
Logging from the Xamarin client
Digging deeper into the communication
Looking under the cover with Fiddler
Performance counters
Under the cover, inside the browser
Summary
11. Hosting a Server Using Self-hosted OWIN
Self-hosting
Adding the needed packages
Adding the code needed for self-hosting
The client
Summary
Index

SignalR – Real-time Application
Development Second Edition