Running ASP.NET applications on OS X using Mono
I wanted to play with the .NET version of the ARP PizzaService application by Mark Piller on WebOrb for .NET so I thought I'd try it out under Mono on OS X. Unfortunately, WebOrb for .NET only appears to be available as an MSI and thus I don't seem to have a way of installing it on OS X. (Not that it was guaranteed to work under Mono but I was hoping it would.) In any case, Mono is very cool. It's basically .NET for Linux/OS X/etc.
To test out ASP.NET on OS X, install Mono on OS X, then open up a terminal window and go to /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Home/lib/xsp/test. There, type xsp to start a development server and open up http://localhost:8080 on your machine to view the ASP.NET samples.
Cool, huh? I'm off to play with WebOrb for Ruby on Rails with Flex 2.
The Running ASP.NET applications on OS X using Mono article by Aral Balkan, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 UK: England License.
DannyT
You could try Fluorine (http://osflash.org/fluorine)… as a hotshots lecturer once said to me when i mentioned weborb: “Why? when there’s open source remoting for .net on osflash”
September 26th, 2006 at 8:10 pmaral
LOL — I think I know that guy! See, this is why I teach!
September 26th, 2006 at 8:20 pmMark Piller
Aral, Let me know if you are still interested to try WebORB on Mono. I can zip up an installation for you so you can avoid MSI altogether.
September 26th, 2006 at 8:27 pmaral
Hey Mark, that would be very cool. I got half-way through installing it on Windows under Parallels and then realized I don’t have my Windows CDs with me here in London and that I need to install IIS for WebOrb .NET to install.
Btw, apologies for the typo in your name (now fixed). If I had a penny for every time I’ve written “Mark” as “Mike”. It’s a weird disability I appear to have.
September 26th, 2006 at 8:44 pmaral
Btw, Dan, it doesn’t appear that Fluorine’s been updated to support AMF3.
September 26th, 2006 at 8:48 pmDannyT
nope, has done for some time http://fluorine.thesilentgroup.com/fluorine/index.html (2nd from last in contents on left)
September 26th, 2006 at 9:02 pmaral
Hmm, interesting, it was just that page that confused me. It shows the workaround for using AMF0 with Flex 2 (the same one I use with the Flex 2 sample app in ARP with AMFPHP.) I just looked at the source and it does appear to have AMF3 support. Not sure why that workaround is on the doc page, though. Was it left from the Beta 2 days when Fluorine didn’t have AMF3 support?
September 26th, 2006 at 10:03 pmDannyT
Alot of the documentation needs updating. Speaking of, I actually tried to update the fluorine page on osflash but couldn’t, I also can’t seem to login to osflash and there’s no password reminder… can you lookup or reset the password for DannyT?
September 26th, 2006 at 11:25 pmaral
Dude, would you believe that DokuWiki doesn’t have a password recovery feature? The easiest thing to do is to create a new account. Sucks, I know. I’ll spare you the usual “we’re looking into it” spiel. Truth is, there’s a long list of things I want to implement on OSFlash
September 28th, 2006 at 2:23 am