Hosting ASP.net application from WCF

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Hosting ASP.net application from WCF

Is it possible to host an ASP.net (MVC in particular, but I'm not sure if that's important) application from a self-hosted WCF service? I don't want to get into IIS, and I'd like to avoid something like Cassini if possible.

Sorry if this is a duplicate, it's really hard to find questions on this (everything is WCF on ASP, not the other way around.)

Technically yes I would have guessed. I've not done it but I would have thought that it's not particulary hard (maybe lots of boilercode though). I suspect that you would have to intercept the HHTP request and then create the ASP.NET pipeline. Is the source for cassini available to look at?

Preet Sangha 2010-09-27 19:04:26

With a custom binding, I'd say it's possible, but would take quite a lot of work building that custom binding.

I would recommend you use IIS. Self hosted WCF services are not as scalable as IIS, and with IIS 7's support for binary protocols are almost entirely unnecessary.

Randolpho 2010-09-27 19:05:06

This is meant to be lightweight and standalone, and does not need to scale, so IIS is pretty much out of the question. But if it requires a lot of work to use WCF I can look for another solution.

Andrew Koester 2010-09-27 19:18:24

@Andrew Koester: Does it absolutely have to be *all* of ASP.NET? If you just need HTML rendering and not a lot of the event model stack working, I think you might get away with a RESTful WCF service (webHttpBinding) and some minor glue code on the service to handle rendering.

Randolpho 2010-09-27 19:29:44

@Randolpho Like I said, I was interested in running MVC on it, so whatever that entails. I don't know how that differs from say, webforms, when it comes to rendering.

Andrew Koester 2010-09-27 19:33:58

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