Question

We are building a HTML5 application, we have a need for colloboration between two users the same way as in Google Docs two users can simultaniously edit a document and they can see each others changes.

In our case the document is never stored at server side. And we will only have HTML5 app running in IE10 on XBOX, Windows PC (7 or 8) and Windows Phone (7.5 and 8).

The users will be on same WiFi network.

Where can we find some samples to learn how we can use Windows Azure services/ Mobile services for this scenario.

Thanks,
Navneet

Answer 1

You are probably looking at something like this:
http://laktek.com/2010/05/25/real-time-collaborative-editing-with-websockets-node-js-redis/

For HTML5, you can use Websockets…which can be implemented in Azure using Node.js or using the SignalR (http://signalr.net/) that abstracts websockets/polling in ASP.NET and runs in Windows Azure.