Standalone ASP.NET development server

Question

I remember seeing a page on codeproject.com where a developer took one or two .dlls from Visual Studio Web Developer 2008 and created a simple win32 form application for hosting a standalone development server.

It was a small applicaton that allowed you to enter the path, port number, and a "GO" button, and it launched the server standalone, without having Visual Studio installed.

I am looking for that solution but can't seem to find it. I am also aware of the Cassini project, the extended version of it, and a webdev.exe (or something like that) solution, but not the dll + form app.

Thanks in advance.

-- Martin

Answer 1

I don't know what happened to the code project article you mentioned. However the framework has the ability to host and run asp.net web applications. Rick Strahl has a nice article on hosting asp.net webpages within a winform app Using the ASP.Net Runtime

There is also an older article on the cassini server on MSDN

It should be simple enough to do what you want with those articles as a starting off point.