WebPuls is an animated HTML5 website that displays activity from external sources as colored pulsing circles. The idea is that every external event should result in a blinking circle on the screen where the color and size indicates the type of event that occured.
The project is heavily inspired by "Listen to Wikipedia" (http://listen.hatnote.com/ and https://github.com/hatnote/listen-to-wikipedia).
WebPuls uses SignalR for distributing event information and the Raphael JavaScript library for HTML5 graphics.
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Make sure ASP.NET MVC 5 is installed
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Compile the project.
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Setup your webserver to point to the WebPuls.Host folder (.NET 4.5)
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Open the website root path in your browser (default MVC controller+method is Home+Index).
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You should get a black screen with some dark red circles appearing after a few seconds. These circles are only for demo purpose and are generated by a timer in Globals.cs - remove them when your stuff works as expected.
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Link the "WebPuls" project to your own project (NOT the WebPuls.Host project).
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Call WebPuls.PulsConnection.AddBlimp() to add a new circle.
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When your project has compiled then copy your *.DLL files to the WebPuls.Host/bin folder.
Thats it. Have fun.
/Jorn Wildt