{"id":1014,"date":"2013-11-09T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/webdev\/2013\/11\/09\/office-web-apps-are-using-asp-net-signalr-to-power-real-time-co-authoring\/"},"modified":"2022-08-09T03:11:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T10:11:30","slug":"office-web-apps-are-using-asp-net-signalr-to-power-real-time-co-authoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/office-web-apps-are-using-asp-net-signalr-to-power-real-time-co-authoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Office Web Apps are using ASP.NET SignalR to power real-time co-authoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Office Web Apps are now using SignalR as the backend to synchronize changes when two or more people are editing files on SkyDrive or on SharePoint Online.&#160; SignalR enables real time communication among different browsers and native mobile apps to communicate with each other through the backend server.&#160; It is flexible, scalable and offers great performance, demonstrated by its usage in SkyDrive Office Web Apps.<\/p>\n<p>To verify its usage in Office web apps, let\u2019s go to SkyDrive and create a word document.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2013\/11\/0181.image_thumb1_thumb_44FCF81C.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"image_thumb[1]\" style=\"margin: 0px;border: 0px currentcolor\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image_thumb[1]\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2013\/11\/0181.image_thumb1_thumb_44FCF81C.png\" width=\"392\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Log on another computer and edit the same SkyDrive document from any browser. SignalR works cross browser and will auto-select the appropriate real-time transport.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2013\/11\/1565.image_thumb10_thumb_3C0FF68E.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"image_thumb[10]\" style=\"margin: 0px;border: 0px currentcolor\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image_thumb[10]\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2013\/11\/1565.image_thumb10_thumb_3C0FF68E.png\" width=\"856\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>F12 on IE11 to bring up the Developer Tools, go to debugger and search for \u201cSignalR\u201d in the scripts to verify its usage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2013\/11\/0508.image_thumb12_thumb_70441FD4.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"image_thumb[12]\" style=\"margin: 0px;border: 0px currentcolor\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image_thumb[12]\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2013\/11\/0508.image_thumb12_thumb_70441FD4.png\" width=\"825\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Go to <a title=\"http:\/\/blogs.office.com\/b\/office365tech\/archive\/2013\/11\/06\/collaboration-just-got-easier-real-time-co-authoring-now-available-in-microsoft-office-web-apps.aspx\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.office.com\/b\/office365tech\/archive\/2013\/11\/06\/collaboration-just-got-easier-real-time-co-authoring-now-available-in-microsoft-office-web-apps.aspx\">http:\/\/blogs.office.com\/b\/office365tech\/archive\/2013\/11\/06\/collaboration-just-got-easier-real-time-co-authoring-now-available-in-microsoft-office-web-apps.aspx<\/a> to learn more about Office Web Apps real-time co-authoring.<\/p>\n<p>Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asp.net\/signalr\">asp.net\/SignalR<\/a> to learn more about SignalR!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Office Web Apps are now using SignalR as the backend to synchronize changes when two or more people are editing files on SkyDrive or on SharePoint Online.&#160; SignalR enables real time communication among different browsers and native mobile apps to communicate with each other through the backend server.&#160; It is flexible, scalable and offers great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":58792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[7408],"class_list":["post-1014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aspnet","tag-signalr"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Office Web Apps are now using SignalR as the backend to synchronize changes when two or more people are editing files on SkyDrive or on SharePoint Online.&#160; SignalR enables real time communication among different browsers and native mobile apps to communicate with each other through the backend server.&#160; It is flexible, scalable and offers great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}