Using the return value of a Hub method
So far, we examined different ways to push information from a server Hub to the connected clients; in particular, we saw how to perform a client-side call just on the caller in the Calling back the caller from a Hub's method recipe. All these techniques have one thing in common: the remote call is performed through the Clients member exposed by Hub. However, in the special case of communicating just with the caller, we can use a different, and in some way more natural, way to do it: have the Hub method return a value.
Getting ready
For this recipe, we need a new empty web application, which we'll call Recipe13.
How to do it…
We're ready to start adding our SignalR stuff, as usual. We need to perform the next set of steps:
Add a Hub called
EchoHub.Add an OWIN Startup class named
Startup, containing just a simpleapp.MapSignalR();bootstrap call inside theConfiguration()method.The following code needs to be added to the Hub:
using System; using Microsoft...