HTML5 Programming for ASP.NET Developers will show you how to:

Add interactivity and media to your sites using the Canvas and Audio and Video APIs.

Make your web applications work offline, understand client side storage options using web storage, and work with local files using the File API.

Use the Communication API and Web Sockets for easier communication between server and client.

Other topics include multithreading with Web Workers, understanding the new input types, using Geolocation, and enhancing your web forms and views with CSS3. All major browsers already support HTML5 to varying degrees and are aggressively working to provide full-fledged standardized support. Start using HTML5 in your projects today, and build future-ready web applications that take advantage of the exciting features that HTML5 has to offer.

What you’ll learn

Use Canvas, Audio and Video, Web Storage, the History API, File API, Web Workers, Web Sockets, Geolocation and more in ASP.NET

Illustrates HTML5 feature utilization in both Web Forms and MVC applications

Use javascript and jQuery to communicate between HTML5 and ASP.NET server side code

Learn to use HTML5 in Visual Studio

Learn to style web forms and views with CSS3

Develop cross-browser, future-ready web applications

Who this book is for

Whether you've worked on a few small projects, or been working with ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC for some time, this book will get you up-and-running with HTML5 so you can make it a part of your daily toolkit. If you are comfortable with creating Web Forms and MVC projects, and you care about staying at the cutting edge of the latest web standards and technologies, this book is for you.

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