SignalR Self Hosting - why does IIS launch?

Question

I followed this tutorial on creating a SignalR app that doesnt need IIS...

http://www.asp.net/signalr/overview/signalr-20/getting-started-with-signalr-20/tutorial-signalr-20-self-host

However when I run it, the browser launches with this url in a tab...

`http://localhost:57719/Default.html`

and I can see in the taskbar that IIS Express has launched.

Can someone confirm that IIS should not launch (I assumed that I was creating a self contained app that didnt need IIS)?

Any ideas what I might have done wrong? (Please let me know what bits of code etc you need posted to help me figure this out.)

Answer 1

Finally figured it out...

Delete JavescriptClient (the asp.net web project) from the solution as it is not needed if you just want to access the server from a web browser.

Follow the instructions in paragraph "Setting up Static Hosting and a JavaScript SignalR client" here ...

http://www.dotnetcurry.com/showarticle.aspx?ID=918

(Basically you need to install another package to allow the self hosted signalR server to server up pages).

Answer 2

I've created project, added packages, copied code

I replaced this

   WebApp.Start(url)

with

WebApp.Start<Startup>(url)

It works fine without IIS.

I got exception with message

The following errors occurred while attempting to load the app. - No assembly found containing an OwinStartupAttribute. - No assembly found containing a Startup or [AssemblyName].Startup class.

When I start it with WebApp.Start(url)

I used .NET 4.5 project Here are references after installing packages

    <Reference Include="Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR.Core">
      <HintPath>..\packages\Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR.Core.2.0.1\lib\net45\Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR.Core.dll</HintPath>
    </Reference>
    <Reference Include="Microsoft.Owin">
      <HintPath>..\packages\Microsoft.Owin.2.1.0\lib\net45\Microsoft.Owin.dll</HintPath>
    </Reference>
    <Reference Include="Microsoft.Owin.Cors">
      <HintPath>..\packages\Microsoft.Owin.Cors.2.1.0\lib\net45\Microsoft.Owin.Cors.dll</HintPath>
    </Reference>
    <Reference Include="Microsoft.Owin.Diagnostics">
      <HintPath>..\packages\Microsoft.Owin.Diagnostics.2.0.2\lib\net40\Microsoft.Owin.Diagnostics.dll</HintPath>
    </Reference>
    <Reference Include="Microsoft.Owin.Host.HttpListener">
      <HintPath>..\packages\Microsoft.Owin.Host.HttpListener.2.0.2\lib\net45\Microsoft.Owin.Host.HttpListener.dll</HintPath>
    </Reference>
    <Reference Include="Microsoft.Owin.Hosting">
      <HintPath>..\packages\Microsoft.Owin.Hosting.2.0.2\lib\net45\Microsoft.Owin.Hosting.dll</HintPath>
    </Reference>
    <Reference Include="Microsoft.Owin.Security">
      <HintPath>..\packages\Microsoft.Owin.Security.2.0.2\lib\net45\Microsoft.Owin.Security.dll</HintPath>
    </Reference>

Check versions maybe there are issues with previous. Because with this libs code throw Exception, I described above.