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Running ASP.NET applications on OS X using Mono

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.

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September 26th, 2006

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Aral

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  1. 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” :P



  2. aral

    LOL — I think I know that guy! See, this is why I teach! :)


  3. 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.



  4. aral

    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.



  5. aral

    Btw, Dan, it doesn’t appear that Fluorine’s been updated to support AMF3.


  6. nope, has done for some time http://fluorine.thesilentgroup.com/fluorine/index.html (2nd from last in contents on left)



  7. aral

    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?


  8. 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?



  9. aral

    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 :)


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