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c#asp.netsignalr
Sora
Sora

Reputation: 2551

SignalR implementation in 3.5 asp based project

How can I integrate the SignalR references and Dlls into a 3.5 project ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1152

Answers (1)

Marc Gravell
Marc Gravell

Reputation: 1062502

Three options:

  • you don't use it
  • you upgrade your project to a more recent framework (presumably 4.5)
  • you do the work to make SignalR work on .NET 3.5, possibly submitting a pull request

The web world moves rapidly; .NET 3.5 was released in November 2007 - over 5 years ago. Forcing all library authors to restrict themselves to this, when the vast majority of projects are going to be for 4.0 / 4.5 is prohibitive. Some projects may choose to do this, some may some may offer a restricted subset of features on older platforms, and some may elect that it simply isn't worth the overhead to support (a lot of effort, to support a marginal and declining user base).

Frankly, I think you should treat this as a reason to consider upgrading framework.

In particular, I can imagine SignalR wanting to make use of the WebSocket and improved async IO features, the MVC hooks, plus the http-context stubbing features (for unit tests). But possibly a lot more (I haven't checked).

Upvotes: 1

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