Microsoft Visual Studio 2012: Utilizing the HTML5 WebSocket API and Web Workers

Overview/Description
This course covers the use of the HTML5 Web Socket API for implementing fast, lightweight web-based communications, as well as utilizing HTML5 Web Workers to implement efficient multithread processing in web-based applications.

Target Audience
Students with the desire to perform real-time web communications and efficient asynchronous data processing for web applications; students preparing for the Exam 70-480: Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3.

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
1.5

Lesson Objectives

Microsoft Visual Studio 2012: Utilizing the HTML5 WebSocket API and Web Workers

describe the elements of a WebSocket upgrade handshake

recognize how to use WebSocket events

demonstrate how to use a WebSocket to connect to an echo server and send and receive messages to/from the server

distinguish between different types of web workers

recognize Web Worker functionality

demonstrate how to create and use multiple web workers to blur an image shown on the page as an HTML5 Canvas element