Adding a Hub to an ASP.NET project
SignalR sets a clear separation between the actual messaging runtime and the hosting environment. Although the host could be any plain old .NET-based process, the most natural context where you can add a SignalR Hub is inside an ASP.NET project, which is the topic of this recipe. Later in this chapter, we'll see how to host it in a different context.
This recipe will concentrate on the server-side; however, some minimal client-side code will also be added to be able to fully demonstrate a complete, although trivial, client-server connection.
Getting ready
There are three main types of ASP.NET projects:
- A Web Forms application
- An MVC application
- A website
The process of creating them is a fairly common task, so we are ...
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