I'm new to SignalR and I am trying to use it to write basically a glorified deli counter take-a-number system. I have it working so the "counter side" people can advance the numbers and it will display on the "customer side" as well as on the other "counter side" computers. However I noticed that if I open a new "counter" page, it doesn't know what numbers the other clients are on now unless someone advances the numbers again before the new page does. If the new window tries to advance the number, it resets everyone to 1 again. Is there a way in SignalR for a new client to see the current state of the other clients, or will I have to persist the data to an external source such as a database or text file? (A database seems overkill for my 3-5 pieces of data.)
I can provide some of my code if necessary, but what I have is working and it's a pretty basic version of a SignalR hub. A lot like the ubiquitous chat tutorials, except that I have 2 client pages, one that is receive only and one that can send as well as receiving.
