Running ASP.NET from hosting process

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I'm responsible for a .NET process running under windows. The process is running as a windows service.

I would like to have the ability to be able to get some info from the service in a web browser. For that matter I would like to write a small ASP.NET web service. The problem is that I want the run the web service within my process. As far as I know, I can't do that since ASP.NET must run from within an IIS.

so...my question is, is it possible to host ASP.NET server within another process?

I know that in the common scenario, I should have the "process code" run as "code behind" the ASP.NET but in my case, the .NET service is already a part of our product so in this case I'd like to have the opposite.

Thanks a lot.

gordy · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-10 08:56:01Z

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You don't have to host ASP.NET inside your service. You can use inter-process communications techniques to communicate between your service and a new or existing ASP.NET webapp. Here's an example using named pipes. Or if you're using .NET 3.5 or higher you can use WCF.

If you really want the service to host its own site I don't think embedding ASP.NET is possible but you can use an http component like this one.

edited Jul 10, 2011 at 8:56

answered Jul 10, 2011 at 8:43

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Davita Over a year ago

+1. Also if he's using .net 4.0, built in ipc would be more efficient than wcf. msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/…

Lior Ohana Over a year ago

Thanks for replying. I thought of this option but that means that I'll have to run IIS on the server and I'd like to avoid this option.

gordy Over a year ago

Ah in that case you may want to just have your service listen on port 80 and serve up content. Added a link to an embedded http server component for .NET

Lior Ohana Over a year ago

Well, currently, looks like what I'm going to do. I wanted to avoid the dynamic http code but I guess no other option. Thanks a lot.

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