What is SignalR?
What is SignalR? ASP.NET SignalR is an asynchronous signaling library for ASP.NET developers’ for creating real-time web functionality to applications. Real-time web functionality is the ability to have server code push content to connected clients instantly as it becomes available, rather than having the server wait for a client to request new data. This new Microsoft API is very much helpful for replacing the earlier web applications where user has to refresh to see new data or a page uses "long polling" to retrieve new data. Examples for the application that you can consider for working with SignalR are • Real-time gaming • Chat Application • Dashboards • Monitoring applications • Collaborative applications • Real time forums • Job updates • Trading • Traffic updates etc…. Why SignalR and How it works? 1. SignalR handles connection management automatically, and lets you broadcast messages to all connected clients simultaneously 2. The connection bet...