Run ASP.NET pages outside IIS by Scott Guthrie

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One interesting uses of ASP.NET is to "pre-process" dynamic ASP.NET requests - saving the output as static.htm files that can be copied to the web-server. You can do this with MyHost.exe by"piping" the output automatically to a static file. Thiswas originally obtained on Charles Carroll's ASPNGFreeforAll posted by Scott Guthrie from Microsoft.

Note:This example has been updated for RTM v1.0.

For example:

To try this out, perform the following steps:

1) Copy The MyHost.cs, mk.bat and Test.aspx files to a local virtual directory
2) Compile MyHost.exe by running mk.bat "csc MyHost.cs /r:System.Web.dll" within a command prompt in the directory
3) Create a directory called bin in virtual sub-directory and copy the myhost.exe file to the bin directory
4) Type "MyHost.exe Test.aspx > test.htm".

c:inetpubwwwrootMyHost.exe Test.aspx > Test.htm

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Hosting;

public class MyExeHost : MarshalByRefObject {

public void ProcessRequest(String page)
{
HttpRuntime.ProcessRequest(new SimpleWorkerRequest(page, null, Console.Out));
}

public static void Main(String[] arguments)
{
MyExeHost host =(MyExeHost)ApplicationHost.CreateApplicationHost(typeof(MyExeHost),"/foo", Environment.CurrentDirectory);
foreach (String page in arguments)
{
host.ProcessRequest(page);
}
}
}

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Test.asx Code
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<html>
<body>
Time is now: <%=Now%>
</body>
</html>

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mk.bat Code
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csc MyHost.cs /r:System.Web.dll