The Benefits of API-First Development
feb 6, 2015
APIs (Application Program Interfaces) were a hot topic in 2014, and that seems set to continue in 2015. Rapid growth in parallel areas, such as the Internet of Things, are likely to keep the momentum behind APIs for the foreeable future. Some companies now have an API as their primary product. Stripe, an online payment […]
Having the Server Update the Client with SignalR: A Case Study, Part II
mar 17, 2013
In a previous post, I started a case study, looking at an application where it made sense to use Microsoft’s new SignalR technology. The application that I chose is a sales order system that allows users to purchase products. In addition (and here’s where the client-side callback support that SignalR provides becomes useful), users can […]
Having the Server Update the Client with SignalR: A Case Study, Part I
feb 28, 2013
In earlier posts, I described how to set up a SignalR server-side hub that can receive message from and, more importantly, send messages to the client, how to create a JavaScript client that could send and receive messages from that hub, and how to send and receive messages from .NET (i.e. non-JavaScript) clients. As I […]
Talking to SignalR Hubs from .NET Clients (and fixing version incompatibilities)
feb 26, 2013
In an earlier post I showed how to set up a SignalR hub that would accept requests and send out messages to browser-based, JavaScript clients. What’s special about SignalR is that those messages are immediately picked up by the browser-based clients like the one I created in the following post (at least, the messages are […]
Accepting and Sending Messages in JavaScript with SignalR
feb 25, 2013
In my last post, I showed how to use Microsoft’s new SignalR technology to create a server-side “hub” that would accept messages from clients and forward that message on to all connected clients. What’s special about SignalR is that, with a modern browser, those connected clients don’t have to send a request to the server […]
