Introduction Users are always interested in a rich experience, or a well UI Experience. They expect real-time action between both client and server, no matter if the technology used is HTML5 web sockets or something else. There comes the SignalR. It is framework built on top of ASP.NET and JavaScript library that helps to build rich interactive web applications. We can use signalR in the scenarios where require polling server after fix interval to check if server has something which client needs to update. Well, In Definition “ SignalR is an asynchronous signaling framework that helps maintain persistent connections between client and server”. It uses the raw technique of keeping connections open between a web client and a web server. Actually it uses an existing technique called long polling. Behind the scenes, it could very well use Web Sockets transparently. How it works Long Polling: With long-polling, the browser sends a request to the server and ...
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