Building for the desktop

The first thing we will need is a separate project in our solution:

1. Let's add it by right-clicking on the solution in Solution Explorer and navigating to Add | New Project:
   
2. In the Add New Project dialog box, we want to make sure the .NET Framework 4.5.1 is selected.

   Note

   We could have gone with 4.5, but some of the dependencies that we're going to use have switched to 4.5.1. This is the latest version of the .NET Framework at the time of writing, so if you can, use it.

3. Make sure to select Windows Desktop and then select WPF Application. Give the project the name SignalRChat.WPF and then click on the OK button:
   

Setting up the packages

We will need some packages to get started properly. This process is described in detail in Chapter 1, The Primer. Let's start off by adding SignalR, which is our primary framework that we will be working with to move on. We will be pulling this using NuGet, as described in Chapter 1, The Primer:

1. Right-click on the References...