Lately I’ve been throwing around the idea of writing an app for my wedding, and started thinking of what I’d want to put in it. One feature that I thought could be fun would be to let guests upload photos directly from the app and display them both to other guests and on our site in real time. In this post I’ll go over how I was able to quickly put together a simple prototype for how this could work using SignalR, Azure Storage, and WebAPI.
I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about my SignalR fork, so I wanted to just take a few minutes to give some quick updates on that.
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