Prerequisites Visual Studio 2017 with the ASP.NET and web development workload. Set up the Project This section shows how to use Visual Studio 2017 and SignalR 2 to create an empty ASP.NET MVC 5 application, add the SignalR library, and create the chat application. In Visual Studio, create a C# ASP.NET application that targets .NET Framework 4.5, name it SignalRChat, and click OK. In New ASP.NET W