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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.
+       ASP.NET support is divided in two pieces:
+       <ul>
+               * Web Forms (Web Applications infrastructure).
 
-       Currently ASP.NET does not work, but work is underway.  If you
-       are interested in helping the effort please contact the
-       mono-list mailing list.
+               * Web Services (the SOAP-based rpc system).
+       </ul>
 
+       Both are fully functional at this point.
+       
+       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.
+       
+
+* Hosting ASP.NET
+
+       Using ASP.NET System.Web.Hosting namespace classes you can make
+       your own ASP.NET enabled server.
+
+       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#.
+
+               * <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
+
+       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.
+
+       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.
+
+       As XSP is written in C# and uses System.Web classes to perform
+       its job, it also works under MS runtime.
+       
+<a name="mod_mono">
+** mod_mono
+
+       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.
+
+       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.
+
+       It does not work on Windows.
+
+<div align="bottom">
+<small>Last updated: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 05:07:31 GMT</small>
+</div>