I can get this tutorial to work in a new project, but not in my existing project.
My project is an ASP.Net MVC 4 web application with the following attribute in the web.config file:
<appSettings>
<add key="webpages:Enabled" value="true"/>
</appSettings>
This is because my application is a Single-Page-Application, which uses AngularJS on the client side. The only page in my application is index.cshtml, to which I've added the relevant code for signalR:
<!-- signalR chat -->
<script src="~/Scripts/jquery.signalR-1.0.0.js"></script>
<!--Reference the autogenerated SignalR hub script. -->
<script src="/signalr/hubs"></script>
<!--Add script to update the page and send messages.-->
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function () {
// Declare a proxy to reference the hub.
var chat = $.connection.chatHub;
// Create a function that the hub can call to broadcast messages.
chat.client.broadcastMessage = function (name, message) {
// Html encode display name and message.
var encodedName = $('<div />').text(name).html();
var encodedMsg = $('<div />').text(message).html();
// Add the message to the page.
$('#discussion').append('<li><strong>' + encodedName
+ '</strong>: ' + encodedMsg + '</li>');
};
// Get the user name and store it to prepend to messages.
$('#displayname').val(prompt('Enter your name:', ''));
// Set initial focus to message input box.
$('#message').focus();
// Start the connection.
$.connection.hub.start().done(function () {
$('#sendmessage').click(function () {
// Call the Send method on the hub.
chat.server.send($('#displayname').val(), $('#message').val());
// Clear text box and reset focus for next comment.
$('#message').val('').focus();
});
});
});
</script>
Then I've got the ChatHub.cs file:
public class ChatHub : Hub
{
public void Send(string name, string message)
{
// Call the broadcastMessage method to update clients.
Clients.All.broadcastMessage(name, message);
}
}
And finally in the global.asax:
protected void Application_Start()
{
RouteTable.Routes.MapHubs();
BundleConfig.RegisterBundles(BundleTable.Bundles);
}
When I run the application, the /signalr/hubs file is not generated. I get a 404 when requesting the file, and it crashes on the line:
chat.client.broadcastMessage = function (name, message) { ....
because chat is null as the previous line did not find chatHub:
var chat = $.connection.chatHub;
Does anyone know what's wrong with my code ?
UPDATE
I have solved my problem by changing the line::
<script src="/signalr/hubs"></script>
to
<script src="~/signalr/hubs"></script>
/signalr/hubsis not a file in the project. In case anyone is tempted to waste time looking for it. If you launch the app then go to that url it will show it to you. – Gash