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Apps and Services with .NET 8 - Second Edition
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Apps and Services with .NET 8 - Second Edition

by Mark J. Price
December 2023
Intermediate to advanced
798 pages
17h 52m
English
Packt Publishing
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Broadcasting Real-Time Communication Using SignalR

In this chapter, you will be introduced to SignalR, a technology that enables a developer to create a service that can have multiple clients and broadcast messages to all of them or a subset of them live in real time. The canonical example is a group chat app. Other examples include notification systems and dashboards that need instantly up-to-date information like stock prices.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • Understanding SignalR
  • Building a live communication service using SignalR
  • Building a web client using the SignalR JavaScript library
  • Building a .NET console app client
  • Streaming data using SignalR

Understanding SignalR

To understand the problem that SignalR solves, we ...

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