Can I run an ASP.NET MVC2 website with a database from the iPad locally? (iPhone)

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Can I run an ASP.NET MVC2 website with a database from the iPad locally? (iPhone)

I really want to run my test websites from an iPad to show to clients but I don't want to have to rely on the 3g connectivity or wifi. Can I run sites that are compiled from an App or something similar on the iPad?

I have seen Mono Touch but I wanted first hand views on this as if I can I'm going to buy an iPad ASAP.

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What you're looking for is IIS or Cassini for the iPad, which doesn't exist, as far as I know.

Using MonoTouch, you'd have to create a native app that simply functioned as a browser shell and served up HTML. MVC works in Mono, so you could do it using a local db, but it would be a lot of work, and I'm not sure what that would buy you... Other than an iPad, which just might make the effort worth it. :)

Brandon Satrom 2010-07-01 12:50:41

I just want to show demo websites on it because fancy products (iPad) help sell things :)Guess I may have to go for 3G and hope the connection works so I don't turn up looking like a tool with a gadget that wont do the job :)

Andi 2010-07-01 13:27:25

Or you could have a laptop with an ad-hoc Wifi connection to the iPad server the pages.

Joonas Trussmann 2010-07-01 13:33:16

yer we did that at work the other day but I want to not have to rely on the intermittant phone network around certain areas :)

Andi 2010-07-01 13:45:01

Oh, totally. I love the idea. Use the iPad to demo the site, and the iPad sells the site. I think as long as you let cutomers know you need at least a decent wireless signal, or Wifi access, you should be good. That, and use ASP.NET Caching, script minifaction, etc. to make your site as snappy as possible. Good luck!

Brandon Satrom 2010-07-01 14:17:45

Cheers! Will Post some lovely photos soon :p

Andi 2010-07-01 14:37:11

+1 A:

You can use Service Stack to create web services. I'm sure you can serve up HTML one way or another. I haven't tried it.

ifwdev 2010-07-01 17:34:55

Interesting... +1

Andi 2010-07-01 21:44:14

Hmm, a bit of a hack, but extending waht ifwdev said, if you can expose services as JSON endpoints, you could mock the UI using raw HTML and Javascript instead of server side code (PHP/ASP.NET etc).

Doobi 2010-08-12 00:17:53

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