Self Hosting SignalR

SignalR, as shown in the earlier posts, can be hosted within a regular ASP.NET application (in other words, on IIS), but can also be self-hosted. You may want to do so if you don’t want the SignalR hosting machine to have IIS installed. In this post I’ll show a simple way of doing so with a console application. It won’t be much different with windows service and I’ll explain how to do it there as well.