CHAPTER 1

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Introduction to the Real-Time Web and ASP.NET SignalR

The Internet is one of the most important inventions in history, and it has changed our lives for the better in many ways. For social creatures such as humans, nothing could be better than a fast method of communication with the world that enables multimedia content delivery with almost no delay.

In its few decades of existence, the Internet has evolved from a basic set of network clusters with simple operations to the foundation of almost everything in our world, providing opportunities to make billions of dollars.

Our mission in this book is to walk you (and other Microsoft web ...

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