ASP.NET Web Application templates in VS 2017 Community

The Web application templates in VS 2017 Community has not changed much from those available in VS 2013 except that the Facebook web application has disappeared and a new Azure API App has been added. You can add folders and core references to:


Web Forms
MVC
API

The various templates available in VS 2017 Community are:

• Empty - No content but a template for creating ASP.NET applications
• Web Forms-For building event driven dynamic web sites with drag and drop support. You have whole toolset of controls and components
• MVC - Using Model-View-Controller architecture with support for test-driven apps
• Web API-Use RESTful HTTP services that can be used by broad range of clients-browsers and mobile devices
• Single-Page application Client side rich JavaScript driven HTML5 with CSS3
• Azure API app-Microsoft Azure API apps for hosting REST APIs as well as API Market place. They can be consumed by mobile, desktop and web apps

Visual Studio 2017 templates:

Visual Studio 2013 templates

General Availability of Azure Mobile Services updates announced

Recent updates to Azure Mobile Services address the scalability of mobile apps and their real-time behavior.

This was achieved by the following:

• .NET backend became generally available and can be used in production. This makes it possible to add a mobility layer to backend easily.
• Recent update to .NET enables using ASP.NET SignalIR for bi-directional communication with apps in real-time.

Details are here.
The integration with SignalIR Hubs confers the following to Azure Mobile Services:

• Unified Authentication with a simple Authorize Level
• Dependency Injection
• Web API Integration -
• Automatic Scale-out

Well what is SignalIR?

SignalIR is claimed to be incredibly simple real-time web for .NET. It is another facet of ASP.NET -ASP.NET SignalIR. ASP.NET Signal IR helps developers to simply add real-time web funcitonality to apps, the ability to have server-side code push content to connected clients in real-time.

SignalIR leverages WebSockets, the HTML5 API for bi-directional communication.

All this is said to quickly, but you must review SignalIR and its context with Html5/Javascript here.

http://signalr.net/