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diff --git a/web/asp-net b/web/asp-net index 258c9725be6..562c7e411f9 100755 --- a/web/asp-net +++ b/web/asp-net @@ -1,102 +1,79 @@ * ASP.NET - The classes for running ASP.NET are being actively written. - Gaurav, Leen and Patrik have been building the classes - required to run ASP.NET web application as well as a small - embeddable web server. + ASP.NET support is divided in two pieces: + <ul> + * Web Forms (Web Applications infrastructure). - There are a couple of components to the puzzle: + * Web Services (the SOAP-based rpc system). + </ul> - <ul> - * .aspx page parser (converts .aspx to C# code). + Both are fully functional at this point. - * System.Web.HttpRuntime support. + Publicly available applications such as <a + href="http://www.asp.net/Default.aspx?tabindex=5&tabid=42"> + IBuySpy</a>, <a href="http://www.ngallery.org/">nGallery</a> and + many others are known to work. + + Web Services stack is being used for commercial applications + such as <a + href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=sourcegear"> + SourceGear</a>'s <a + href="http://www.sourcegear.com/vault/index.asp">Vault</a>. They + even funded the development of our Web Services classes back in + 2002. Another example is OpenLink's + <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/">Virtuoso</a>. People + from OpenLink also contributed to Mono. - * Web controls (System.Web.UI.HtmlControls and - System.Web.UI.WebControls). - - * Underlying infrastructure for the controls (System.Web.UI). - - * HttpRuntime.ProcessRequest is the core of the ASP.NET - implementation. - </ul> +* Hosting ASP.NET - Gonzalo has been working on an ASP.NET parser that takes .aspx - files and generated the code required to run them (the code lives in - module `xsp' along with a little web server for testing). + Using ASP.NET System.Web.Hosting namespace classes you can make + your own ASP.NET enabled server. - Most of the runtime support was mostly written by Patrik Torstensson - (now at Intel). This was interesting, because in order to implement - some of its features, Patrik had to go into the runtime/JIT engine and - he spent a few weeks doing work there. - - Duncan got our System.Web assembly to compile. - -** HttpRuntime + However, if you want to take the easy path, we provide two + different mechanisms for hosting ASP.NET applications: + <ul> + * <a href="#xsp">XSP</a>: A light-weight web server + written in C#. - Patrik has authored most of the HttpRuntime support (both on - the System.Web and on the foundation) but it is still not - ready to run. + * <a href="#mod_mono">mod_mono</a>: An <a + href="http://httpd.apache.org">Apache</a> module that + works with both 1.3 and 2.0 versions. + </ul> +<a name="xsp"> ** XSP - Currently XSP provides the .aspx compiler to C#. It would be - interesting to see if it makes sense to extend the ASP.NET - syntax to make it simpler to develop applications. - - Gonzalo is in charge of the compiler. - -** Controls - - A lot of work has been put in the various classes that - implement the controls (UI.HtmlControls and UI.WebControls), - but they have been coded mostly in the dark, and without being - able to test them in real life: Gaurav and Leen worked very - hard on this namespace, but needs to be finished. - - We can now render all HtmlControls and some WebControls. Work is - ongoing to make all WebControls render HTML. - -** Extending ASP.NET - - Currently you have to reference in your ASP.NET the control - and all of its properties, which works fine if you have a GUI - designer, but is harder for people used to develop using text - editors. - - Since we have a parser, we could extend this parser to allow - people to still use ASP.NET controls, using a simpler syntax. - For example people doing blogs and editing their templates - over the web probably do not want to use direct ASP.NET but a - wrapper around it. - -** Roadmap - - 1. The Parser. - - 2. Get the parser to generate output compatible with ASP.NET. - - 3. Run the sample output with the real Microsoft runtime - but using our generated page. + XSP is a simple web server written in C# that can be used to + run your ASP.NET applications. The code is available from our + <a href="download.html">download page</a> or from the <a + href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS</a> repository (module name: + xsp). + + A couple of classes of this new server can be reused/extended + to make an apache module/cgi using mono (MonoWorkerRequest and + MonoApplicationHost). This server also uses a couple of + plugins distributed with Mono to support gzip HTTP transfers. - 4. Run the sample with our classes with the .NET runtime. - <b>We are here</b>. + There is also a set of pages, controls and web services that you + can use to test the server and see how ASP.NET looks like. - 5. Finish HttpRuntime. + As XSP is written in C# and uses System.Web classes to perform + its job, it also works under MS runtime. - 6. Running our sample code with our classes with our runtime. - -** How to Help +<a name="mod_mono"> +** mod_mono - Currently we are testing and fixing HtmlControls, WebControls and - validators. + This Apache module is available from our <a + href="download.html">download page</a>. The <a href="anoncvs.html"> + cvs</a> module name is mod_mono. - In the CVS module XSP you can find the aspx to C# page parser, - a little web server used for testing and a directory containing - sample aspx pages. + It allows apache to serve ASP.NET pages by proxying the requests + to a slightly modified version of our XSP called mod-mono-server + that is installed along with XSP. - You have some documentation under doc directory and in the README - file of each directory. They explain how to test our System.Web. - Testing is really easy! + It does not work on Windows. +<div align="bottom"> +<small>Last updated: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 05:07:31 GMT</small> +</div> |