是否可以将ASP.NET应用程序部署为桌面应用程序（带有服务器组件）

Question

Question: I created an ASP.NET web application.

Now it originally was meant for deployment on a webserver.
That is working, so, so far so good.

My question now is: Is it possible to deploy it as a desktop-application, too?

That is to say the installer installs some kind of server, plus the web application, configures the server to run this application on a localhost URL, and then creates a link in the start menu/desktop, where it opens that url (website, the application) on localhost in a web browser?

I think it should be possible, though the server wouldn't be IIS, because this is a windows component which can't be separately installed.

Is there anything like this already out there ? The nonplusultra would be that it only starts the server when you click on the shortcut.

Answer 1

I'm not sure, but you could use IIS express, when it will be released. Take a look to ScottGu's post Introducing IIS Express .

Answer 2

I almost went for Cassini.
But in the meantime, I found something better:

http://code.google.com/p/aspnetserve/

My mistake was searching for 'asp.net deployment server component' instead of 'asp.net embedded webserver'.

A really cool project.
Seems to work, at least for my needs.

Edit:
A much better choice is xsp4 from package xsp-2.10.2, courtesy of the mono-project.
http://download.mono-project.com/sources/xsp/
Works on both Linux and Windows, as well as Mac, with both mono and .NET framework, and that without GAC installation (in fact, without any installation).

The latest source is here:
https://github.com/mono/xsp/tree/master/src

Answer 3

您可以使用易于安装的ASP.Net Web服务器，例如UltiDev Cassini 。

Answer 4

I think what you are looking for is something like Adobe Air: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Integrated_Runtime

However you want to be able to run ASP.NET, which Adobe Air does not. My suggestion is to use Silverlight