title: SignalR Console app example
body: <p>Is there a small example of a console or winform app using signalR to send a message to a .net hub?. I have tried the .net examples and have looked at the wiki but it is not making sense to me the relationship between the hub(.net) and client(console app) (could not find an example of this). Does the app just need the address and name of hub to connect?.</p>
  
  <p>If someone could provide a small tidbit of code showing the app connecting to a hub and sending "Hello World" or something that the .net hub receives?. </p>
  
  <p>PS. I have a standard hub chat example which works well , if I try to assign a hub name in Cs to it , it stops working i.e [HubName("test")] , do you know the reason for this?.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>
  
  <p>Current Console app Code.</p>
  
  <pre><code>static void Main(string[] args)
  {
      //Set connection
      var connection = new HubConnection("http://localhost:41627/");
      //Make proxy to hub based on hub name on server
      var myHub = connection.CreateProxy("chat");
      //Start connection
      connection.Start().ContinueWith(task =&gt;
      {
          if (task.IsFaulted)
          {
              Console.WriteLine("There was an error opening the connection:{0}", task.Exception.GetBaseException());
          }
          else
          {
              Console.WriteLine("Connected");
          }
      }).Wait();
  
      //connection.StateChanged += connection_StateChanged;
  
      myHub.Invoke("Send", "HELLO World ").ContinueWith(task =&gt; {
          if(task.IsFaulted)
          {
              Console.WriteLine("There was an error calling send: {0}",task.Exception.GetBaseException());
          }
          else
          {
              Console.WriteLine("Send Complete.");
          }
      });
   }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Hub Server. (different project workspace)</p>
  
  <pre><code>public class Chat : Hub
  {
      public void Send(string message)
      {
          // Call the addMessage method on all clients
          Clients.addMessage(message);
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Info Wiki for this is <a href="http://www.asp.net/signalr/overview/signalr-20/hubs-api/hubs-api-guide-net-client">http://www.asp.net/signalr/overview/signalr-20/hubs-api/hubs-api-guide-net-client</a></p>