ASP.net for multi user communal applications

Question

I'm hoping this is a good place to post this question, its more around theory than actual code. Please bear with me.

I have coded many C# and Java applications both for fun and for work, but have no background with web based languages such as asp.

I need to write a web based application which will have features such as games (simple games like tic tac toe) which users can play against each other and a chat feature.

If I were to use ASP.net for this, do I still need to write a server back-end for the users to connect to, or can this run nativity inside the asp.net (with C#) pages?

Or is ASP perhaps not the best language to be doing this in?

Answer 1

ASP.NET is a server-side language. The client (a browser I am guessing) doesn't run anything other than JavaScript at the moment.

If you are familiar with C#, then you can use ASP.NET with C# on the backend server. For a chat application check the sample SignalR app in the getting started guide. For tic tac toe, you probably can code the whole thing on the client side using JavaScript. Unless if you want multiple players for one tic tac toe game then you can use a SignalR component to communicate between them.