INDIA │ 28-30 September 2011

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Socket Programming on the web

Rajasekharan Vengalil│ Developer Evangelist, Microsoft
 INDIA │ 28-30 September 2011
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SESSION AGENDA

• WebSockets
– Why, but why?
– WebSockets defined
– How to get it
– Demo – Socket Chat
– Demo – Building a collaborative doodling app
 WebSockets – Why, but why?

• Real time web

–Twitter, Stock tickers, Games
–Hard to efficiently push data to a
browser
Current polling methods
 WebSockets – What is it?
a socket that works anywhere across the
web …even through network
intermediaries
WebSockets Spec is really two separate
specs

WebSockets Protocol W3C WebSockets API

HyBi Working Group Web Applications Working Group
WebSockets in IE, Windows & .NET
• Implements hybi-10
• IE 10
• IIS 8.0
• .NET 4.5
– ASP.NET
– WCF
– HttpListener
 WebSocket protocol: how it works
• Connection established using HTTP handshake
• Data is sent over the underlying TCP
connection
– Binary or UTF8
• Can traverse firewalls and proxies
– Best results when tunneled over SSL
 WebSockets - How to get it?

• Options:
1. Get web sockets prototype from html5labs.com
and work with IE9
2. Download Windows 8 Developer Preview and get
it out of the box on IE10 Platform Preview 3
3. Chrome 14
4. Firefox 7
Socket chat
DEMO 1

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A collaborative doodling app
DEMO 2

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 Resources
• Web Sockets Spec • Shameless Plug
– My blog
• Get Win8 Dev Preview
• blogorama.nerdworks.in
• IE 10 developer’s guide – Twitter
on Web Sockets • @avranju
• Paul Batum’s blog post – Email
on setting up on Win8 • rajave@microsoft.com

• BUILD session on
WebSockets

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