* Web Services (the SOAP-based rpc system).
</ul>
- There is work underway for both systems. The Web Forms
- support is more advanced at this point, and various ".aspx"
- programs can be run using the Mono runtime, including IBuySpy.
+ 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 bug fixing and adding missing features
+ 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. Although we have a
- SoapFormatter as part of the remoting infrastructure already
- (contributed by Jesus), most people will be using the ASP.NET
- Web Services support. Work for the supporting class libraries
- just started recently.
+ 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.
- The major missing element is a complete XmlSerializer.
+** Hosting
-** HttpRuntime
+ 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.
- Patrik has authored most of the HttpRuntime support (both on
- the System.Web and on the foundation).
+ * <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
- 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).
+ 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),
- but they have been coded mostly in the dark, and without being
+ 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.
+ hard on this namespace. After that, we keep fixing bugs on
+ them.
- We can now render all HtmlControls and almost all WebControls.
- DataGrid and DataList controls are being finished by Gaurav.
- Xml control needs some work on System.Xml related to XSL.
+ We can now render all HtmlControls and all WebControls.
Help in making the controls better is appreciated.
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.
-* Web Forms: The pieces (historical)
-
- 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 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.
-
- The classes for running ASP.NET are being actively written.
- Gaurav, Leen and Patrik worked in the core of the classes
- required to run ASP.NET web application as well as a small
- embeddable web server.
-
- Duncan got our System.Web assembly to compile.
-
** How to Help
Testing and fixing HtmlControls, WebControls and validators is an
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