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Introduction

Creating an embedded server using aspNETserve involves only a few lines of code.

Sample 1

Sample 1 is perhaps the simplist of console web servers. This particular server is so simple because it does not accept user inputs for its configurations, those are simply hard coded.

``` using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using aspNETserve;

namespace ConsoleWebServer { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { string physicalPath = "c:\wwwroot"; int port = 8080; using (Server s = new Server(new System.Net.IPAddress(new byte[] { 127, 0, 0, 1 }), "/", physicalPath, port)) { s.Start(); Console.WriteLine("Press any key to stop the server"); Console.ReadKey(); s.Stop(); } } } } ```

``` Imports System Imports System.Collections.Generic Imports System.Text Imports aspNETserve

Namespace ConsoleWebServer Class Program Shared Sub Main(ByVal args() As String) Dim physicalPath As String = "c:\wwwroot" Dim port As Integer = 8080 Imports (Server s = New Server(New System.Net.IPAddress(New Byte() { 127, 0, 0, 1 }), "/", physicalPath, port)) { s.Start() Console.WriteLine("Press any key to stop the server") Console.ReadKey() s.Stop() End Sub End Class End Namespace ```

The ServerObject is the core component for any embedded server. It is this object that represents the instance of aspNETserve hosted within your own application.

Sample 2

The second sample of a console based embedded web server is actually part of the official aspNETserve code base. The ConsoleServer project contains the following code: ``` /******************************************************************** * Copyright (c) 2006-2008, Jason Whitehorn (jason.whitehorn@gmail.com) * All rights reserved. * * Source code and binaries distributed under the terms of the included * license, see license.txt for details. ********************************************************************/ using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using aspNETserve;

namespace ConsoleServer { class Program { /* NOTE: * This is only intended to be an example of a web server. * It is not intended to be a serious implementation, and as * such is lacking user input validation. */ static void Main(string[] args) { Console.WriteLine("aspNETserve console server"); Console.Write("IP: "); string rawIp = Console.ReadLine(); Console.Write("Port: "); string port = Console.ReadLine(); Console.Write("Physical Path: "); string physicalPath = Console.ReadLine(); Console.Write("Virtual Path: "); string virtualPath = Console.ReadLine();

        Console.WriteLine();
        Console.Write("Starting...");
        System.Net.IPAddress endPoint = System.Net.IPAddress.Parse(rawIp);
        using (Server s = new Server(endPoint, virtualPath, physicalPath, int.Parse(port))) {
            s.Start();
            Console.WriteLine("DONE");
            Console.Write("Press any key to stop");
            Console.Read();
        }
    }
}

} ``` The latest versions of the above code can be viewed @ http://code.google.com/p/aspnetserve/source/browse/trunk/ConsoleServer/Program.cs