I would like to introduce a SignalR chat in our site, which is based on Asp.net 4.5 using Jquery and SignalR. But instead of having all the users on the site online to communicate among them, We would like to have every city based users have their own group to chat among . And when a person within their city group clicked on a particular username from his/her own city, then a private chat opens.
Is there any possibility to do something like this?

And in another project (similar to freelancer.com), can we have a employer to have online users based upon those who have bid on a particular project? Say, that employer has a drop down list of each freelance project (job he has put already) to choose among and when chosen a job, its contractors including bidders will come to chat, either on group chat or private based upon our need. Doable?

Hi there,

You may want to look at SignalR's Group functionality. It allows you to separate your connections into groups and send messages to specific groups only: http://www.asp.net/signalr/overview/...ng-with-groups

Cheers,

Imar

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