Re: Hosting a .NET Web Service without IIS

From: David Hoffer (dahofferremove.remove_at_iserv.remove.net)
Date: 07/04/04 

Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 22:14:29 -0400

I have some questions about this thread...

What is an asmx web service? How is this different than a regular web
service?

I am new to Web Services. I want to partition my NET Windows Forms
applications so that the data layer (SQL MSDE) is accessed through a web
service API. My clients are all Forms apps so I have no need for ASP. Some
of my systems are XP Pro (no issue) but some are XP Home and 98SE. The
later do not have IIS. How can I write one code base that works for all
platforms? 90% of systems run all tiers on a single system.

I may be able to require that users that desire a distributed solution use
XP Pro (or Home) as the server but the same code must work on 98SE on a
single box.

What is the best way to do this?

-dh

"Dino Chiesa [Microsoft]" <dinoch@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:uToXZ9lXEHA.1684@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> yes, it is possible to host ASMX without IIS.
> There is the Cassini project, which is a low-feature host for ASP.NET,
> written in C#.
> It is shared source. Learn more on www.asp.net. It is suited for
> development and test, not production.
> Cassini was produced to support the "Web Matrix" tool, a easy-to-use, free
> dev tool for asp.net. The idea was, you'd be able to use Web Matrix to
> build apps, and Cassini to host them diring development.
>
>
> It is possible to host the ASP.NET runtime in any app. For example some
> people host ASP.NET runtime within WinForms apps, so those WinForms apps
can
> actually act as webservices SERVERS. The WinForms app might also be a
> client. Maybe supporting a peer-to-peer webservices architecture.
>
> Here's an article exploring that angle
>
http://www.microsoft.com/belux/nl/msdn/community/columns/desmet/hostaspnet1.mspx
>
> This is basically what Cassini does.
>
> ps: In the Visual Web Developer 2005 Express edition, there is another
host
> for asp.net.
> You can try out the beta by going here:
> http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/vwd/default.aspx
>
> Allen is correct that hosting the SOAP Formatter in remoting is NOT asmx
and
> will NOT give you the same interface. It will give you SOAP, though, so I
> would not say "Not exactly pure web services." It is web services, just
a
> bit more complex to develop.
>
> -D
>
> "Allen Anderson" <allen@sparkysystems.com> wrote in message
> news:kq8nd0hp120ksvt2uj3n2tu3k67qh0bik3@4ax.com...
> > you can but you'd be writing a lot of custom code. You could also use
> > remoting with SOAP formatter over http with singlecall (though this
> > would not give you .asmx web services). Not exactly pure web services
> > but fairly close and you can self host that. Seems like there is also
> > a mini web server out there called Cassini that you can use. I'm not
> > sure it would be a good idea to use that in production though.
> >
> > Allen Anderson
> > http://www.glacialcomponents.com
> > mailto: allen@put my website url here.com
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 15:00:17 -0600, "Gary Webb" <scurito@hotmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >Is it possible to host a .NET Web Service (managed code using the .NET
> > >Framework 1.1) without IIS? I remember a website that indicated it was
> > >possible to use a .NET Remoting server to host a Web Service. Could
> client
> > >code that consumes a Remoting *web service* be used interchangeably to
> > >consume the same interface from a web service hosted in IIS?
> > >
> > >Gary
> > >
> >
>
>

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