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* 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.
There are a couple of components to the puzzle:
<ul>
* .aspx page parser (converts .aspx to C# code).
* System.Web.HttpRuntime support.
* 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>
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).
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
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.
** 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.
4. Run the sample with our classes with the .NET runtime.
<b>We are here</b>.
5. Finish HttpRuntime.
6. Running our sample code with our classes with our runtime.
** How to Help
Currently we are testing and fixing HtmlControls, WebControls and
validators.
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.
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!
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