SignalR

<h2 id="details">Details</h2>
<p>ASP.NET SignalR is a library for <a href="/facts/ASP.NET/xq7KM8mN">ASP.NET</a> developers to add real-time web functionality to their applications. Real-time web functionality is the ability to have server-side code push content to the connected clients as it happens, in real-time.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a>
</p><p>SignalR takes advantage of several transports, automatically selecting the best available transport given the client's and server's capabilities. SignalR takes advantage of <a href="/facts/WebSocket/NcQrqpnv">WebSocket</a>, an <a href="/facts/HTML5/HBAxEAr6">HTML5</a> API that enables bi-directional communication between the browser and server. SignalR will use WebSockets under the covers when it's available, and gracefully fall back to other techniques and technologies when it isn't, while the application code remains the same.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a>
</p><p>SignalR also provides a simple, high-level <a href="/facts/API/GMlN4vUr">API</a> for doing server-to-client <a href="/facts/Remote_procedure_call/uMMb9CQw">RPC</a> (call JavaScript functions in a client's browser from server-side .NET code) in an ASP.NET application, as well as adding useful hooks for management, such as connect/disconnect events, grouping connections, authorization.
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
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<li>Free and open-source software portal</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Blazor/DflqmThl">Blazor</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Socket.IO/WFzbpcKs">Socket.IO</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2>
<ul><li>Aguilar, Jose M. (2014). <i>SignalR Programming in Microsoft ASP.NET</i>. <a href="/facts/Microsoft_Press/5bNASSu4">Microsoft Press</a>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0735683884.</li>
<li>Vespa, Roberto (2014). <i>SignalR Realtime Application Cookbook</i>. <a href="/facts/Packt_Publishing/eT0RTSSK">Packt Publishing</a>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1783285952.</li></ul>
<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://signalr.net">Official website</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/SignalR/SignalR">SignalR</a> on <a href="/facts/GitHub/n1hNCsc3">GitHub</a></li>
<li><a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-signalr/">Azure SignalR Service</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Gustavo Armenta Valdez (December 17, 2012). "SignalR: Building real time web applications". Microsoft MSDN. <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2012/12/17/signalr-building-real-time-web-applications/" target="_blank">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2012/12/17/signalr-building-real-time-web-applications/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Daniel Mohl (December 28, 2012). Building Web, Cloud, and Mobile Solutions With F#. O'Reilly Media, Inc. pp. 105–. ISBN 978-1-4493-3376-8. Retrieved February 4, 2013. <a href="978-1-4493-3376-8" target="_blank">978-1-4493-3376-8</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Alex Mackey; William Stewart Tulloch; Mahesh Krishnan (October 10, 2012). Introducing .NET 4.5. Apress. pp. 143–. ISBN 978-1-4302-4332-8. Retrieved February 4, 2013. <a href="978-1-4302-4332-8" target="_blank">978-1-4302-4332-8</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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