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Mkl Rjv
Mkl Rjv

Reputation: 6933

Self hosted SignalR with MVC

Is it possible to use a self hosted signalR server with an MVC(4) application such that it is totally seperate from the signalR server?

I tried Tim and Patrick's beautifully executed SignalR intro tutorial, and was wondering if I could try that? And even if I could, would that offer any performance advantages over an integrated service as is metioned in the tutorial.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 872

Answers (1)

Sabacc
Sabacc

Reputation: 789

It is absolutely possible to self-host a SignalR 2.0 server with OWIN and accessing this server from within any Website (which may be a MVC application). The only thing you need is to enable CORS (app.UseCors(CorsOptions.AllowAll); in your Startup file of the Owin Host) since it's not on the same domain as your Website. Obviously you can't use SignalR within the MVC application itself this way (e.g. to publish messages).

I'm using a self-hosted ASP.NET Web API 2 and SignalR 2 server with OWIN to serve data to clients. You can find an example server using this scenario here. Tho advantage in this approach is to have your views & styles sepparated from your data and business logic. Making everything very easy to cache and scale.

Upvotes: 2

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