I decided to move to the latest version of signalr but i facing a few issues. First of all the way to register routes has entirely changed; so i tried to do it the way that this link http://www.asp.net/vnext/overview/latest/release-notes#TOC13 suggests.
The problem is that although i add
<appSettings>
<add key="owin:AppStartup" value="xxx.Startup, App_Code"/>
</appSettings>
to the web.config the Configuration
is not invoked at all. Does anyone know what i'm doing wrong?
Solution !
<appSettings>
<add key="owin:AppStartup" value="MyNameSpace.Startup, MyNameSpace" />
<add key="owin:AutomaticAppStartup" value="true" />
</appSettings>
<system.web>
<httpHandlers>
<add verb="*" path="*" type="Microsoft.Owin.Host.SystemWeb.OwinHttpHandler, Microsoft.Owin.Host.SystemWeb"/>
</httpHandlers>
</system.web>
<system.webServer>
<handlers>
<add name="Owin" verb="*" path="*" type="Microsoft.Owin.Host.SystemWeb.OwinHttpHandler, Microsoft.Owin.Host.SystemWeb"/>
</handlers>
</system.webServer>
I was able to get the 2.0 beta working by
Removing all references to the older version of SignalR, ie nuget uninstall of the library and double checking /bin
Installed SignalR 2.0.0-beta2 via Package Manager Console Install-Package Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR -Pre
Following the steps in the 1.x to 2.0 migration outlined in the ops link
And most importantly changing the project config to use Local IIS Web server instead of Visual Studio Developer Server (Cassini).
More info in the question/answer I posted here
For me, the answer was that this DLL was missing:
Microsoft.Owin.Host.SystemWeb.dll
It was omitted by my build process. It seems that it needs to be present in the bin
folder of an Asp.Net site for the Configuration
method to get called.
Is this a website? If this is a website the assembly for the website is getting generated dynamically so you cannot figure out the fully qualified name of your startup class like this. Instead try adding an assembly level attribute in your code like this and see if your Startup.Configuration is invoked.
[assembly : OwinStartup(typeof(Startup))]
By default it will search for a file called Startup; so the only thing i had to do was to create a Startup class under the Assembly-name.Startup
namespace.
The namespace should follow the above pattern to make the it possible to find the startup class