* 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.
-
- 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.
+ ASP.NET support is divided in two pieces:
+ <ul>
+ * Web Forms (Web Applications infrastructure).
+
+ * Web Services (the SOAP-based rpc system).
+ </ul>
+
+ Both are functional at this point, and applications like
+ "IBuySpy" run with Mono.
+
+ ASP.NET works either embedded into
+ our XSP server test server or the mod_mono Apache module.
+
+ We are now working on bug fixing and adding missing features
+ after making the whole pipeline compatible with MS.
+
+ Tim started work on the Web Services. After that, Lluis is in
+ charge and has been working hard on them as part of our
+ <a href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=sourcegear">SourceGear</a> contract.
+
+ Web services are now supported and there are some samples in the
+ XSP set of tests.
+
+** Hosting
+
+ ASP.NET provides a hosting interface. Today we ship support
+ for two different hosting mechanisms:
+ <ul>
+ * <a href="#xsp">XSP</a>: A light-weight C# web server.
+
+ * <a href="#mod_mono">mod_mono</a>: An apache module
+ that can host the Mono runtime and the ASP.NET runtime
+ </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)/.
+
+ This is where initial development of the .aspx/.ascx/.asax
+ compiler to C# took place. That compiler is now integrated in
+ System.Web classes mostly under System.Web.Compilation
+ namespace. We added a new web server that works with mono and
+ MS runtime and is being used to debug our classes. It resides
+ in xsp/server.
+
+ 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 .aspx pages to test the server along with
+ a few user controls under xsp/test.
+
+ You can check it out from CVS and run 'make install' to test it.
+
+<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 works with both 1.3 and 2.0
+ versions of the <a href="http://httpd.apache.org">apache server</a>.
+
+ It allows apache to serve ASP.NET pages.
+
+ Work is underway to improve it.
+
+** Controls
+
+ A lot of work has been put in the various classes that
+ implement the controls (UI.HtmlControls and UI.WebControls).
+ 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. After that, we keep fixing bugs on
+ them.
+
+ We can now render all HtmlControls and all WebControls.
+
+ Help in making the controls better is appreciated.
+
+** ASP.NET and free controls.
+
+ We want to encourage developers to create open source controls
+ that can be used both on Mono's ASP.NET and Microsoft's ASP.NET.
+
+** How to Help
+
+ Testing and fixing HtmlControls, WebControls and validators is an
+ easy way to help.
+
+ In the CVS module XSP you can find a small 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!
+
+ As the server also works with MS runtime, you can use it to check
+ what the expected results are.
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