SignalR: Real-time Application Development -- Table of Contents -- SignalR: Real-time Application Development -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Revitalizing the Rich Client -- The Emperor's new clothes -- The good old terminal -- X server -- Remote desktop -- Rich clients -- The Web -- Full duplex on the Web -- Events -- Comet -- Hand-rolling it all -- Why? -- Now what… -- Think different -- Summary -- 2. Persistent Connections -- Where are we going? -- The persistent connection -- Summary -- 3. Hubs -- Moving up one level -- Summary -- 4. Groups -- Getting specific with groups -- Summary -- 5. State -- Becoming stateful -- Summary -- 6. Security -- Becoming private -- Summary -- 7. Scaling out -- Scaling out -- SQL Server -- Redis -- Azure -- Summary -- 8. Monitoring -- Looking under the covers with monitoring -- Fiddler -- Performance counters -- Summary -- 9. Hosting a server using OWIN -- Self hosting -- Summary -- 10. WinJS and Windows 8 -- WinJS -- Summary -- Index.