I decided to move to the latest version of signalr but i facing a few issues. First of all the way to register routes has entirely changed; so i tried to do it the way that
Is this a website? If this is a website the assembly for the website is getting generated dynamically so you cannot figure out the fully qualified name of your startup class like this. Instead try adding an assembly level attribute in your code like this and see if your Startup.Configuration is invoked.
[assembly : OwinStartup(typeof(Startup))]