A larger web projects would typically consist not only of front end web project, but would include additional class libraries and offload some of the heavy processing work to service or console apps. The common problem is then how do you update the front-end and signal the site that some work has been completed. more

The Clients dynamic property of the Hub gives you access to all clients connected to the hub within the hub class. However, what if you would like to push data to the clients from outside of the Hub class. One of the most common scenarios is when you want to push data to the clients from an admin system in your back-end. more

SignalR is an open source async signalling library. It was made by David Fowler and Damian Edwards. In a nutshell, it allows you to pass data between client and server in realtime. It’s not only for web, it has JS, .Net, WP7 and Silverlight clients and supports self-hosting so you can run the SignalR server in win service or web context. It will run on .Net 4.0 or 4.5 and to get websockets running, you will need IIS8 or IIS8 Express. That said, it will run on older versions of IIS and will switch to different transport modes. more