Open Source Embedded C# Webserver

Wednesday July 1, 2009

Developed by Swedish developer Jonas Gauffin who runs his own telecoms company, C# WebServer lets you embed a webserver into your .NET applications, just like Opera Unite does with browsing. I've been looking at ASP.NET again, specifically ASP.NET MVC and came across this webserver. it's not ASP.NET but it does support MVC in C# and is modular so you can add or exclude modules.

The 7 tutorials with source code are sufficient to get you writing code for it and the fifth one includes a complete web application using validations, localizations, view controllers, embedded resources and models. Not that many applications need an embedded webserver but when you do, you know where to look ...