Building an HTML5 Web Sockets Server with ASP.NET 4.5

Saturday, April 13, 2013

ASP.NET 4.5 now includes support for HTML5 Web Sockets which can provide a great way to add real-time communication to a Web app where a server can actually push data live to one or more clients. In this video from the New Features in ASP.NET 4.5 Pluralsight course I walk through getting started with creating a Web Sockets server using a Nuget package from Microsoft called Microsoft.WebSockets.

Learn to Use ASP.NET 4.5 Web Sockets - The Easy Way

If you'd like to learn more about the new features in the 4.5 release and in Visual Studio 2012 check out my Pluralsight course.

Download samples of using the "raw" ASP.NET support for Web Sockets as well as the Microsoft.WebSockets support here. I've also included a Node.js sample for anyone who may be interested.

3 Comments

It would be nice if you also included a sample project here ;)

markvt - Sunday, April 14, 2013 1:27:10 PM

markvt:

Your wish is my command - added a download at the bottom of the post that has ASP.NET samples as well as a Node.js sample of using Web Sockets.

Dan

dwahlin - Sunday, April 14, 2013 6:37:51 PM

When I "View in Browser" (Google Chrome), I immediately get the message "Closed connection!" What's wrong...?

Tim - Wednesday, May 8, 2013 2:07:30 AM

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