Implement sending Server Sent Events in C# (no ASP.NET / MVC / …)

Question

For a project, I need to implement SSE (Server Sent Events) in a C# Application. Although this may sound easy, I\'ve got no clue how to solve this.

As I\'m new to C# (th

Answer 1

This sounds like a good fit for SignalR. Note SignalR is part of the ASP.NET family, however this does NOT require the ASP.NET framework (System.Web), or IIS, as mentioned in comments.

To clarify, SignalR is part of ASP.NET. According to their site:

ASP.NET is an open source web framework for building modern web apps and services with .NET. ASP.NET creates websites based on HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript that are simple, fast, and can scale to millions of users.

SignalR has no hard dependency on System.Web or on IIS.

You can self-host your ASP.Net application (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/signalr/overview/deployment/tutorial-signalr-self-host). If you use .net core, it is actually self-hosted by default and runs as a normal console application.