Hello Lance,
As for the "create a local server during runtime" question you mentioned,
do you mean you want programmtically start a local test webserver to run an
ASP.NET 2.0 web appliation from a specified file system path(directory)?
Based on my understanding, the Visual Studio 2005 use the
"WebDev.TestServer.exe" application(installed with .net framework 2.0) in
the framework directory (C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727).
When Visual Studio load and host a ASP.NET 2.0 web project in IDE, it
actually start this "WebDev.TestServer.exe" program and define the
application settings (such as physical directory path, virtual path , port
....) through commandline arguments. For example:
the following command (suppose the current directory is the .net 2.0
framework directory) will start an ASP.NET 2.0 web project hosted in the
local webserver, the application's physical directory is at
"d:\workspace\webprojects\WebApp1", the web app will be hosted as the
"/WebApp/" virtual path, and listening on local port 8080:
WebDev.WebServer /port:8080 /path:"d:\workspace\webprojects\WebApp1"
/vpath:"/WebApp1"
So we can visit the application's pages through the following local address
http://localhost:8080/WebApp1/xxx.aspx
Here is a good blog article describing the usage of the test webserver:
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2005/11/21/431138.aspx
In addition, if you want to programmatically start such a web application
in the test webserver, you can consider dynamically create a process
pointing to the "WebDev.WebServer.exe" program and supply the paramters.
For example, here is a test .net code fragment that start a local webserver
session in a console application:
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class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Run();
}
static void Run()
{
Process proc = new Process();
proc.StartInfo.FileName = HttpRuntime.ClrInstallDirectory +
"\\WebDev.WebServer.exe";
proc.StartInfo.Arguments = " /port:8888
/path:\"D:\\temp\\precompiled\\testsite1\\updatable\"
/vpath:\"/testsite1\"";
proc.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
proc.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
if(proc.Start())
{
Console.WriteLine("local webserver started........");
}else{
Console.WriteLine("local webserver failed to
start........");
}
}
}
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BTW, since the "webdev.webserver.exe" is a winform application, I would
suggest you not try programmtically launch it in any non-interactive
service(such as ASP.NET application or windows service), because in such
service application, we can not interactively manage the created
"WebDev.WebServer" application and may cause problem.
Hope this helps you. If you have anything unclear above, please feel free
to post here.
Sincerely,
Steven Cheng
Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead
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