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Introduction

I was reading an article about future software like web applications, and then I thought how to run a web application in client without internet connection and no Server component installation.

If you see all ASP.net Applications there are very user-friendly and you can use Ajax in asp.net applications and more components. On the other hand it was shown in a research many people were interested applications like internet forms and web browsers applications.

User-friendly rules forced you to flow users with all ideas and interests, if you would like your software be lovely.

I was thinking about above subject when I saw the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and its solution to run asp.net without IIS. Microsoft has an API for this work although this API is not published by .NET 2.0 but it's free because when you download free Web Developer Express from Microsoft site; setup of this program install this API. Called "WebDev.WebHost"

(If you have "Web Developer Express" Or "Microsoft Visual Studio 2005" you can find this API from %system root%\assembly\GAC_32\WebDev.WebHost\8.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a\WebDev.WebHost. dll)

Using of WebDev.WebHost. dll

Use of this API is simple

1. You must add this dll to your references project
2. Add Microsoft.VisualStudio.WebHost to your namespaces
3. Now Create an Instance of Server :

Server s =new Server(port, virtual_path, physical_path);

• port : a number between 1 to 65353 ( if you have IIS you cant set 80 for this)
• virtual_path : this path show in address and not real for example if your virtual path is "mypath" and your port is 8080 address of this is : http://localhost:8080/mypath/
• physical_path : path of folder have your web application, really on your system.
4. Your IIS install !! now you only must start your server

s.Start(); 

5. Or Stop your Server

s.Stop();

6. If you need Url of your server check this property

linkLabel1.Text = s.RootUrl;

Really Use

• If you have a program and you need a good help like MSDN, this is a new solution .
• If you are an Asp.net programmer and need a client application this is a solution
• If you are an Asp.net programmer and need to show your application to your customer without installing on a real host, this is a solution.
• If you are a student and need to show your web application to your master.
• If you wrote a client application and you want to connect it to your web service ,this is a way to test this
• And more

Really not Use

Well, so far we learned that how to use this API, now we are going to tell you that when you don’t use it

• When a big Web Application (big means important data not in size of pages)
• When your transactions is important
• When you write real program (your publish is commercial)
• When you have more than one user

New idea and future

In the next years you don’t have any client application on your system for example you can see Office Live in Microsoft site , this solution solves any problem of copyright , support ,Up-Date, user-friendly , usability and so on.

But when I see these years and fast progress of hardware's cant find the answer of this question : " Although I'll have a Core2Quad or better CPU , more than 6 gigabyte RAM installed , more than 500 gigabyte hard disk drive , blue ray disk drive or better and windows vista or better ,but I don’t have any program on my system. what should I do?".

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Tip to run without Visual studio mohsen ahmadian 19:22 8 Sep '09   Hello Under Vista, you may need to grant the "network service" account write access to the ASP.Net temporary files directory. Open a command prompt and type the following command: C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.Net\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_regiis.exe -ga "NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE" I purpose to any one, if you need .Net framework completely you have to install SDK . you can download this from Microsoft website: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fe6f2099-b7b4-4f47-a244-c96d69c35dec&displaylang=en[^] Best regards Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink does not work without Visual studio leoadell 6:05 16 Jan '09   I could run the application successfully on machines that have installed visual studio 2005 or 2008 but others that do not have it installed don't work There is any dll dependance or something Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Re: does not work without Visual studio vik13ner 19:06 13 Apr '09   Am facing the same problem.(trying on a Vista machine with .NET 2.0 and no Visual Studio) -Vikram Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Re: does not work without Visual studio findmeausername 17:33 8 Sep '09   There are 2 other options besides distributing the development webserver, which i'm not sure is legal: Self hosting in any managed .net application is quick - see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb332338.aspx for an example. My managed application hosts a WCF service but requires logging, SSL and many concurrent connections so I got neokernel (www.neokernel.com) and distribute it's dll. Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink thank You Member 3596439 11:56 8 Apr '08   Thank you very much this is a very good application specially for persons like me using home edition of windows os Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Just get the Cassini source cwilliam 20:13 26 Feb '08   If you want to have your own web server, just get the Cassini source code. The Cassini source code is what the Visual Studo web server is built from. You can't redistribute the .dll you mention just because Express is free. You'll land in very hot water. So do yourself a favor, and just integrate the freely available source. http://blogs.msdn.com/dmitryr/archive/2005/09/27/474534.aspx[^] Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink No IIS licensing? jimatjude 16:19 26 Feb '08   This is an interesting approach, but would pulling the dll out of the Express product violate either the EULA or some other copyright / patent license? Is this an issue we should be concerned about before we start making use of your solution? jimatjude Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Re: No IIS licensing? mohsen ahmadian 9:57 27 Feb '08   Hello and thank you for your viewpoint you sure and any one sure for use or deploy any API must Accept it copyright / patent license in this article i say Free not Open source or Shareware Under GNU or like this. To use/deploy this API you must accept EULA.Although we are accept it any time! Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 5.00/5

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