Nithin Kamath’s Weblog

Currently i am in the process of learning asp.net for a project to be done in the college, which is supposed to be done in the next semester. Since i am using gnu/linux, i was in a dilemma on how to learn asp.net without spending much time on windows. Suddenly, i remembered mono “the open source .net project”, i fired up firefox and googled for “mono asp.net” and voila, the very first link itself took me to the page i was looking for [http://www.mono-project.com/ASP.NET]

I found out that i could either install an Apache Module or run a small standalone server. I choose the second one, the stand alone server “xsp” which is written in c#.

The best thing about “xsp” is that it came with my mono installation and all i had to do was do to the directory which had my “.aspx” files and run xsp in that directory. It set up a server and i could browse to http://localhost:8080 and run the .aspx pages. Cool! right, i found out that the c# scripts were supported and i don’t know if vb scripting is possible since it generated errors when run.

If you don’t want to write your own pages to test this server then change directory to: “/opt/mono-1.1.9.2/lib/xsp/test” or where ever mono is installed in your system. Once in the /lib/xsp/test directory start xsp and you can goto localhost:8080 and check out some cool sample pages.
Got lots more to explore. Bye for now.

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