How SignalR Works

SignalR is a library which can add realtime web functionality to applications. It provides a simple API for creating server to client RPC, that call JavaScript functions from server side .NET code.SignalR handles connection management automatically. It also has a API for this. SignalR is an abstraction over a connection. It gives you 2 programming models over the connection (Hub and Persistent...

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Getting the most out of Global.asax

Global.asax is a class derived from HttpApplication class. This file is also called ASP.NET application file. Global.asax is responsible for handling application level events raised by ASP.NET and HTTPModules. This file is optional if you haven't created it, ASP.NET assumes you have not defined any application or session event handlers. During the...

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Database Indexes

Database index is a data-structure which improves retrieval of data from database tables. Indexes are used to quickly locate data without having to go through every row in database table.  Source : kindleyourbrain If you create an index it'll create a data-structure with the field value in which you created the index and a pointer to the...

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Storage options in HTML5

 This document is in draft version    In this article we'll look into storage options available for HTML5.  Web storage Store data locally within user's browser. Earlier this was done using cookies.  But Web Storage is secure and much faster.  The data is not included with each server request.  Possible to store large amounts of data without affecting site...

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