Running existing ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms apps on Mac

Question

Can we run an existing ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms apps like one on Mac using mono: https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Getting-Started-with-221c01f5?cdn_id=2013-12-16-001

I believe I need to use a Mono aware IDE and to try to re-reference all compatible .dlls and try to modify the code that doesn't have equivalent in mono versions to use mono libraries.

Is this true?

There is an open source questionnaire type of app (different then above app) that I would like to run on Mac. I have a friend with a Mac computer who would like to serve web pages from a web server residing on the Mac (I am not sure what kind of Service would that be - like Mac version of IIS - some kind of daemon service) and when the questionnaire response is submitted he wants a .PDF of that response to be created and saved on Mac local folder (so I need to find a way how to use create .pdf based on posted response data)

vnext version would be fine (which I heard improves all by Web Forms app), but I don't know if Web Forms libraries are available for the Mac

I would like to develop and debug on a Windows machine and just deploy and configure web server on the Mac.

Is Xamarin Studio for Windows or MonoDevelop for Windows answer?

What are best web servers on the Mac that can serve up the pages preferably that are similar in nature to IIS?

Answer 1

Use VS 2015 and .Net Core if you want to build .NET applications to run on a Mac. It is still in preview but you can still develop applications.