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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.
-
-	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.